{"id":1341,"date":"2009-03-20T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T06:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-03-20T06:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T06:11:28","slug":"extraordinary_book_sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/extraordinary_book_sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"extraordinary book sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Dettmer creates these extraordinary sculptures by amalgamating, modifying and mutating books.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/dettimemememe-tm.jpg\"><br \/>\nLooking at these images of the physical matter of books, remixed into sculptures, I&#8217;m reminded of the process that texts are increasingly going through once digitized: amalgamated, remixed, reformed into new entities.<br \/>\nDettmer&#8217;s sculptures invite us to think about deeply-held taboos around the sanctity of books as objects; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200903u\/amazon-kindle\">a conversation that recurs &#8211; especially in the context of e-readers &#8211; around discussion of digitized text<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/New%20Books%20of%20Knowledge%20view3%20copy-tm.jpg\"><br \/>\nRecycling, reimagining, repurposing the cultural glut amidst which we currently exist feels in many ways an appropriate artistic mode for today. Is authorship really so sacred that remixed works cannot themselves be things of beauty and value? Or, like European villages dismantling local medieval chateaux to build outhouses, are we taking our cultural history so completely for granted that we&#8217;re in danger of forgetting or destroying millennia of culture in a thoughtless reappropriation of its materials for our current preoccupations?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/New%20Circle%20view2-tm.jpg\"><br \/>\nDettmer&#8217;s show opens April 3 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packergallery.com\/\">Packer Schopf Gallery<\/a> in Chicago.<br \/>\n(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/03\/19\/brian-dettmers-book-1.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Dettmer creates these extraordinary sculptures by amalgamating, modifying and mutating books. Looking at these images of the physical matter of books, remixed into sculptures, I&#8217;m reminded of the process that texts are increasingly going through once digitized: amalgamated, remixed, reformed into new entities. Dettmer&#8217;s sculptures invite us to think about deeply-held taboos around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}