Artists who turn books into sculpture

[OriginalGeek]

18. I disagree that the books should not be used

It IS about the art. It was said earlier the artists could find another thing to carve up and surely they could but then their art wouldn't be a carved up book. The words and pictures may represent something while in book form but they also represent something after having been converted to sculpture.

I thought about it for a minute and was almost willing to stipulate that at least they were using mass produced books so even after the sculpting, there were many unsculpted copies of the work around for anyone to enjoy as books. But I caught myself and now think that even a very limited or even single copy edition would be fair game for turning into a sculpture as its rarity would only make it that much more precious.


Provided, of course, the sculptor had something interesting to say.

So, for me, Hooray! for books as sculpture! I would never, though, ask you to turn in your books for sculpting.