Thursday Art

[svetlanacat4]

Brian Dettmer, a New York-based artist known as the Book Surgeon, uses tweezers, knives, scalpels and other surgical tools to dissect and carve old books into intricate and beautiful sculptures.

Dettmer’s work has a sort of vintage touch to it because he uses old books - maps, encyclopedias, textbooks, manuals, and any other sort of literature that

Comments

[avery11]

There's a part of me the shudders at the thought of a book being desecrated, but then I look at this beautiful art, and I imagine the author would understand.

[jkkitty]

Reminds me of the ivory I've seen in the museum. Beautiful