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Donna Ruff A Journey, series of four altered books created for Disaster! one year anniversary of Katrina exhibition, text removed by water and knife from pages leaving narrative: “A journey to help had begun to feel useless when the most frightful heart-shaking eerie and terrible pictures soon appeared. But now came the thundering, swift and powerful earth-shaking rumble as the storm lifted the roof which stunned All of the Neighbors carrying furniture out.”

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visual-poetry: “the _____ of _____”by paul sahre

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fuckyeahbookarts: Art and Botany: A Xylotheque’s Cabinet of Curiosities “With its flourishing book industry and emphasis on natural history, the Age of Enlightenment introduced new ways of bringing science and culture to curious audiences. One of its most remarkable inventions was the xylotheque. From the Greek words xylos, ‘wood,’ and theque, ‘repository,’ a xylotheque is, literally a “library of wood”—however, something is lost in this translation. To its audiences, the xylotheque was an experiential botanic expedition, an exquisite art form, and an ingenious way to examine the beauty and value of its plant specimens.  An enhanced version of botanical books that merely illustrated the taxonomy of trees, these volumes were in fact fabricated from their subjects. They were bound in the bark of their respective tree, covered with moses and lichens, and filled with pages fabricated from the tree’s leaves. Hinged with bark, each “book” opened to reveal a cabinet of curiosity. The hollow interior was an exhibit of the tree’s anatomy: tucked neatly inside were dried leaves, seeds, flowers, and a piece of the root. A written description of the tree’s biology and economic use was nested within the spine. Fabulously literal and remarkably beautiful, the xylotheque was a library of art and science, in equal parts. “

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Exposed Spines by Jody Alexander

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Handstitched Clamshell Book Sculpture by Erica Ekrem Available at her Etsy store, Odelae

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THE BOOK BOOK by Pat Sweet and Bo Press Miniature Books2 3/16” x 1 11/16” Number 3 in an edition of 15Available at Bo Press Miniature Books on Etsy

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What is a real book? by Tracy Doreen Dietzel, 1992 via University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kohler Art Library Artists’ Book Collection

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tatteredcover: Word art: texts written on grains of rice mythologyofblue: Trong G. Nguyen, Library, 2007. The entire text and individual chapters of various books written word for word on grains of rice. A re-interpretation of the library. (blesseparlemot)

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printeresting: Karen Hanmer

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aperfectcommotion: Meg Hitchcock, from the series Mantras & Meditations [She dissects religious texts such as the Bible, Koran, and Torah and uses the individual letters to create maddeningly complex, interwoven collages of typography, creating a visual mantra of devotion.]