{"title":"Thinking Outside of the Book: Recycled Book Art at the Library","authors":"Markye Barber","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 1960s book on Gothic art has been painstakingly cut and spliced with images from Disney’s and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland . Shockingly bright in his black-and-white environment, the March Hare peers out from behind pointed arches, while a pensive blue Caterpillar lounges among the crowds at Golgotha. Next to this, a beat-up hardback copy of Steven King’s The Stand has been transformed into a tome bound in stitched skin, scarred and bleeding, with a milky eye embedded in the cover. The next book is an old encyclopedia volume, whose pages have been folded and sprayed with adhesive to keep them open and stiff: across the fanned-out paper, the artist has stenciled a message: “PRINT IS DEAD.”","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Virginia Libraries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1233","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 1960s book on Gothic art has been painstakingly cut and spliced with images from Disney’s and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland . Shockingly bright in his black-and-white environment, the March Hare peers out from behind pointed arches, while a pensive blue Caterpillar lounges among the crowds at Golgotha. Next to this, a beat-up hardback copy of Steven King’s The Stand has been transformed into a tome bound in stitched skin, scarred and bleeding, with a milky eye embedded in the cover. The next book is an old encyclopedia volume, whose pages have been folded and sprayed with adhesive to keep them open and stiff: across the fanned-out paper, the artist has stenciled a message: “PRINT IS DEAD.”