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Artists' Books

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Altered Books Highlights

Dark blue book cover with two darker rectangles in the middle.

New New Testament

Paul Chan, 2014.
 
New New Testament documents Paul Chan’s monumental project Volumes, a series of more than 1,000 paintings made out of dismantled book covers and the texts that complement each painting.

 

 

Book spread made to look like the yellow pages phonebook. The left page has a large, red drawing.

Bottom of the Lake = Fond du Lac

Christian Patterson, 2015.
 
Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with Patterson's own drawings, photographs and marginalia.
 
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Book pages covered in colorful drawings that alter the way the text can be read.

A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

Tom Phillips, 1980.
 
A reproduction of an altered book created by Tom Phillips, using a copy of William Hurrell Mallock's novel "A Human Document".                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

 


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