Comments on: Brian Dettmer’s Book Autopsies

By: australiadog

australiadog — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:46:35 +0000

and climb with box And grapes, pretty that and saw acorns I grew the vast other things it’s name I didn’t are all Forest. and went to my parents

By: Tequila

Tequila — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:05:00 +0000

You can almost taste the pulp…great idea that goes beyond a typical gimmick. Great sense of design there, can’t say I’ve seen the idea taken to this level of intricacy before. What’s great about this is that you NEED to have work like this in the physical world…cause digitally it’d just come off as a glorified colage or a really cool heavily layered Photoshop file.

These two are particularly impressive:

http://centripetalnotion.com/images/briandettmer10.jpg

http://centripetalnotion.com/images/briandettmer16.jpg

By: Laura Gardner

Laura Gardner — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:34:27 +0000

Ive seen some modified books before, but this is truely amazing.

By: Mer

Mer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:29:24 +0000

Paul, holy crap, those are incredible. So, so sad I didn’t get to go to the Giger Museum while I was in Switzerland last fall. My traveling companions just weren’t into it. I should have rented a car and gone by myself.

By: Paul Komoda

Paul Komoda — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:39:12 +0000

Those pieces are fascinating, not just for the way they look, but for the single-minded devotion that Dettmer brings to their de-construction and re-construction.

The idea of books as art objects reminds me of the series of works by
Martin Schwarz that I had seen displayed at the Giger Museum a few years ago. He had taken actual books and infused them with burgeoning outgrowths of crystal, seashells, and in one case, baby taxidermist crocodiles.
Here’s a link to some images( the crocs are not included, oddly):

http://www.eigenartverlag.ch/pixelshine/buchobjekte/index.htm

By: D

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:36:01 +0000

Brilliant idea. Love seeing those images (but personally I could never do that to a book). A world between the covers.

By: Mer

Mer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:18:30 +0000

Incredible. This certainly does inflame my paper fetish.

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:56:55 +0000

Lovely, I could almost smell the old paper. Mmmm.

By: gooby

gooby — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:43:33 +0000

Yowza! Fun concept, I’d love to animate those things, be an interesting narrative.