Saturday, October 27, 2007

a drawing, of a book













graphite on paper on book
9x7"

4 comments:

Steven LaRose said...

I am sorry, you must be mistaken, that is a slab of granite.

Mary Klein said...

From the Center for Books Arts' about page: " . . . contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object."

a christian said...

thanks for that mary, have you been there?

I would tweak it to:

contemporary interpretation of a book as a drawing.

is it obvious from the crappy image that its paper stretched over an actual book?

Mary Klein said...

Your tweaking seems to be a subset of their definition. It also matches nicely what you've done.

I think I needed your label, "graphite on paper on book" along with looking at the enlarged images to see that it was "paper stretched over an actual book." It's hard to convey information of a three-dimensional nature here.

I've never been to the Center for Book Arts in New York but have been to the one here in the Twin Cities. Here's a bit about the current exhibit there as well as some nice photographs of the work.