Haunting book-sculptures featuring Tlingit forms
Artist Nicholas Galanin has created a wonderful collection of sculptures made from books, featuring reliefs of faces and traditional Tlingit forms.
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Artist Nicholas Galanin has created a wonderful collection of sculptures made from books, featuring reliefs of faces and traditional Tlingit forms.
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Maybe this is just the fact that my momma was a librarian, but why do so many artists destroy books? Can't they use old catalogs or something? The ones from Fisher Scientific are massive. Or maybe phonebooks? Noone uses phonebooks anymore, right? Especially last years.
I use the phone book all the time. Trying to look businesses up online gets me every business that's gone under in the last decade.
And vast numbers of books go to landfill or recycling because nobody wants them. We'd be happy to send you several tons of Readers Digest Condensed Books if you'd like.
@1: If you bothered to read the artist's statements you'd find that he uses old ethnographic texts about the Tlingit written by non-native ethnographers/anthropologists, etc. Pretty fucking rad.
This is just fantastic. Beautiful.
Oh sure it's all very wonderful, until that thing sneaks into your bedroom at night and EATS YOUR SOUL.
Librarians have to get rid of books all the time. I guess its like how surgeons get used to the sight of blood.
I have some carved up books on my wall, I used the autobiography of joan rivers and some hippy dianetics-type book on consciousness.
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(librarian)
I was a manager of a "National Book Store chain" and every single Tuesday we were required to rip the covers off TONS of paperbacks and throw them in the dumpster. I was infuriated..why not donate them to libraries, inner city schools, senior citizen centers. And don't you know we'd get fired if we even tried to take them for above mentioned uses. That's the REAL sin.