The following work is research of artists which produce books to develop there works. This research will aid my inspiration towards making the book for the Leeds University book fair. I will use this research to produce a home made book as well as completing post production work.
Brian Dettmer
Book sculptor
In the art session at college, we looked at artists which used books as a way of creating art. The work we looked at included manipulating old books to create new storys and images, and also artists who sculpted using books to create a new art medium. Brian Dettmer is a book sculptor, who uses old books to create unrealistic worlds to create an elusion of escapism. He often is influenced by nature, connecting the paper to trees and using natural colours.
Dettmer is known for his detailed and innovative sculptures with books and other forms of antiquated media.In recent years Dettmer has established himself as one of the leading International contemporary artists working with the book today. In 2011 his work was featured on the cover of Book Art (Gestalten Publishers, Berlin) and discussed in a historical context in Bookwork (Stewart, The University of Chicago Press). In 2012 he is scheduled to have solo shows in San Francisco with Toomey Tourell Fine Art and The Jewish Community Center; in Maribor, Slovenia as part of its celebration as the European Cultural Capital of 2012 and in Atlanta, GA at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. His work is also scheduled to be in several group shows including “40 under 40” at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute.
Brian Dettmer
Book sculptor
In the art session at college, we looked at artists which used books as a way of creating art. The work we looked at included manipulating old books to create new storys and images, and also artists who sculpted using books to create a new art medium. Brian Dettmer is a book sculptor, who uses old books to create unrealistic worlds to create an elusion of escapism. He often is influenced by nature, connecting the paper to trees and using natural colours.
Dettmer is known for his detailed and innovative sculptures with books and other forms of antiquated media.In recent years Dettmer has established himself as one of the leading International contemporary artists working with the book today. In 2011 his work was featured on the cover of Book Art (Gestalten Publishers, Berlin) and discussed in a historical context in Bookwork (Stewart, The University of Chicago Press). In 2012 he is scheduled to have solo shows in San Francisco with Toomey Tourell Fine Art and The Jewish Community Center; in Maribor, Slovenia as part of its celebration as the European Cultural Capital of 2012 and in Atlanta, GA at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. His work is also scheduled to be in several group shows including “40 under 40” at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute.
William Eggleston
commercially sells work in books
Eggleston is an American photographer who specialises in colour photography, shooting partulally in the 1970's. In the 70's, colour was extremley popular in commercial photography as well as art forms. Eggleston taught at Harvard in 1973 and 1974, and it was during this period when he discovered dye-transfer printing when he was examining the price list of a photographic lab in Chicago. As Eggleston later recalled: "It advertised 'from the cheapest to the ultimate print.' The ultimate print was a dye-transfer. I went straight up there to look and everything I saw was commercial work like pictures of cigarette packs or perfume bottles but the colour saturation and the quality of
the ink was overwhelming.
Eggleston's books following the photographs recurring theme of similar colours. For example, The images in the series which contain mainly red dye transfer, have a red book cover, and for the blue images, blue book cover etc.
Eggleston broke through the barrier of black and white photography creating a
new trend and photographic genre.
Georgia Russell
Book sculptor
Russell is a scottish artist who uses books simarlly to Brian Dettmer, to create artistic sculpchure. As well as books, she transforms music, maps, newspapers and photographs. Although comparable to Dettmer, she uses books to create texture and explores outside of the inside book. I noticed that in some of her sculptures, the texture seems like furr. Taking a closer looks at her exhibition work, I noticed that my view of the scultures was that they resembled wild animals, this was surfaced from the furr like texture and round, 3-D shapes. To create the scultures, she shredds, cuts and slices the paper.
Task 2- I have developed this work
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