Book sculptures in bronze

These lovely sculptures are all in bronze. If you go to the websites where they are displayed you can scrutinise them in much greater detail.  See the one on the left  here and the "bookworm" on the right here. And wouldn't you love to own these book ends? Click on the image to see a larger version.

World's first Lego Book

We've all seen lego, played with it, built castles, landscapes, farms, but BOOKS?

"They have fully realized covers, spine, and pages that open flat and maintain the curvature of a real book. Each one is created out of 200+ LEGO parts. Each edition will use over 20,000 individual pieces. The dimensions of the books are approximately 3 1/4" wide x 3 3/4" tall x 2" thick. Only 4 points on the book are cemented ( for permanence ) but being LEGO, the balance of the book is held together via the power of the bricks. "

Check the site for more.

Death by Books?

Visit this link for more

Is this a Gun I see before me?

Book gun sculptures created by Robert The

Visit the site to see them from different angles and at different stages

Fantastic book sculptures

Book sculptures created by Su Blackwell
Many more at her site.

Edensor, Derbyshire

The Castle

The Girl in the Wood

Alice and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Book Art - new meaning for the circulation desk

http://www.recyclart.org/2010/09/library-information-desk/

Thalia: Book sculpture

This giant book sculpture was placed outside a bookstore called Thalia in Linz, Austria. Believe it or not, this is an advertisement!

To celebrate its status of European Capital of Culture 2009, Linz (Austria) organized in May 2007 a life-size exhibition, Schaurausch - Art in 50 Shop Windows.

The idea was to enable thirty Austrian and International artists to transform 50 storefronts.Here the work of Spanish artist Alicia Martin who reinterpreted the front of a bookstore, Thalia.

A 12 meters waterfall of books rose from the first floor of the library, to symbolize a tower of Babel from which knowledge would be available beyond the huge number of shelves that a bookstore used to have.

Book Towers - creator Tom Bendsten

This tower consists of 12,000 books. (exterior)
Built 4 different ways in 3 years. 16' (height)

It's creator is Tom Bendsten, a Canadian visual artist, and this is one of a number in a series titled Arguments.

Click on the image to the left for a view of the interior.

And below is the view up the middle.

Step into a world made entirely of books

Source

Scanner by Matej Kren - Liegi Lux Aeterna on YouTube




Also from Matej Kren: Scanner - Mambo, Bologna - Youtube

Eye Candy - Book Sculpture

Another one of these "look at how we can massacre books" thingies.
I'm using the tag "book sculpture" now so you can check some of them out now. [my only hesitation is that by using the tag sculpture it looks perhaps as if I think it's art]

These things are apparently called Cosmopolitans and are composed entirely of donated chick lit novels.

Eye Candy - book sculpture

I found this image here but did not manage to find the original. It certainly would be striking.

Book Art & Book Scupltures

I couldn't resist this - I saw it somewhere else a week or two ago.
Today I found it on the Auntie blog.
The post is called Eye Candy - The Librarian

From deviantart user amartinsdebarros, found via sleepydumpling's tumblr.
Another reader of the blog said it reminded her of the Arcimboldo painting "The Librarian" (ca 1570)

Aren't they great?

There are some terrific images around - do a search on Google Images for "made from books" or "book art" and a different world opens up. Click on the images below to find out where they came from.