Book, Paper, Scissors
Published September 12th, 2007, 12:01am in Curiosities.
Can’t believe I missed Brian Dettmer in my pompous Book Art All-Stars roundup. He may be my favorite book sculptor of the bunch because he doesn’t add anything to the books or move anything around, he just carves, recontextualizing existing content.
More at the Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery.
Wow, that’s freakin incredible. He must have zen-like patience. Skills are without question.
Holy shit, this guy is incredible. That is insane patience/determination to cut out each page like so. Someone give this man a decent copy of the Book of Kells.
How do you bookmark that!
That is soo cool!! Awesome!
But how did you do it?? And it must have taken an eternity!!! Really awesome!!
I’ve never seen anything like this - totally awesome. Found you by stumbling, and I’m so glad I did. Very inspiring.
So incredible!!!!!
Crap man, just down right creative. I would love to see how one of these is made. amazing.
why aren’t there any that just look like frogs though? otherwise I guess it is cool
And I am having trouble with the Dick and Jane reader. This art is wonderful.
Wow. Just wow. So good, my faith in the human race just rose a peg.
Amazing. Is this guy just a rich guy who had a lot of time on his hands. If so then I’m glad he did cause it’s beautiful!!
this guy must be on some really good uppers…..
Just when I think I’ve seen about every art form up comes something really fabulous like this. He has mucho more patience than I.
Amazing! I want to see more!
Wow! Very creative form of artwork! Really cool!
Please email me, I have an art community blog you may be interested in participating with, also, I’m an antiques auctioneer and come across antique books, I’d love to send you a few when I do if your interested in have more to work on.
However, maybe it takes a year to do one, and you have all you need!
Great job!
Hello Everyone. I am Brian Dettmer, the artist that did this work. First of all, thank you for your interest and great response to my artwork. I see a number of comments/questions are addressed to me as if I put this here and it needs to be understood that I had nothing to do with this website. Also, I appreciate all the questions and interest but I will not have time to answer them because there are way too many blogs about my work now. For more info about my work you can go to the websites these images were originally lifted from:
Packergallery.com
Toomey-Tourell.com
HaydeeRovirosa.com
AuctionWally- I appreciate your offer and I’m always looking for material to work with. I don’t want to post my email online but if you contact Aron Packer at PackerGallery.com he can forward your information and I will contact you.
Thank You!!!!
that is definitely impressive.
having just stumbled onto Ron Mueck, i’m beginning to think i underestimated stumbleupon as a simply tekgeek driven service
!!! fantastic
Well that is certainly something different.
Anybody knows if the way a book’s “sculpture” is related to its content ?
Let me rephrase that:
Anybody knows if a book’s “sculpture” is related to its content ?
Wow. The best I can do is make those little paper snowflakes.
Hey, was using StumbleUpon and found your site. Pretty cool!
Stephanie
http://www.makethegreatescape.org
Found on Stumble - Amazing!
Whoah!..this is amazing!..@.@
can you imagine the planning??
Wow, this is truly amazing…Nice piece of work!
woah, how long does it take to create one of these?
simply amazing!! I can’t imagine all the time it would take to do this!
I would have to say this is beautiful!