This post isn’t about beautiful books, but about books that have been transformed into other art forms. When some artists look at books, they see possibilities even beyond the worlds invented by the books’ authors. From pop-up creations that come to life to cut-out witticisms (rolling paper waves and a ship “sailing” out of a copy of Treasure Island), these paper innovations make my jaw drop. How about yours?
Even the projects that require books to be destroyed (sacrilege! murder!) result in such incredible works of art that I can suppress the horror and simply marvel. And it’s already an old joke, but it must be made: try doing *this* with an e-reader.
After the paper-arts videos, you’ll see another extremely impressive book-related kind of art: artist Althea Crome talking about the miniature sweaters she knitted for the Coraline movie. (Thanks to YA novelist Chris Tebbetts for the link!)
Do you have any favorite book-arts images or links to share? (The comments field doesn’t allow full links, but I think you can enter anything that comes after http://www.)