Are you effing kidding me? What is with all of you mental midgets complaining about “destroying a book”? Are you seriously overlooking the immense skill, talent and creativity it would take to pull something like this off? If anything this furthers the notion that reading allows one to “create” and “dream”. If these books could speak I’m sure they’d be ecstatic to be displayed in such a way. So to all you whiners, pull that stick out of your ass and see the forest through the trees.
All I have to say is this work is stunningly creative and hats off to the ARTIST who realized this beautiful creation.
This is truly exquisite! It takes a handful of patience and perseverance to create something as impressive as this. A salute to the artist! There are thousands and thousands of books all over the world, not to mention the numbers of copies per book, so why complain about A few books? Would you thought of doing something as unique as this?
[...] concepto sencillo pueden surgir pequeñas maravillas de impecable ejecución. Éste es el caso de Book of Art, un minucioso trabajo realizado por Isaac Salazar en el que, doblando páginas de libros, ha [...]
Oh well, one book down a million more where it came from. And I am sure no one complains about it cause the books has been paid for, and the books aren’t alive so stop being so damn pessimistic and get a life. I love art. I love this and if you don’t like it. Go jump off a bridge cause you’ll do humanity a favor.
Yeah…What Dan said!! Seriously, these are an amazing work of art. So unique! As many people as there are that THROW AWAY books this is a very creative way to recycle them!! Come on people, for obviously liking to read you really should have more of an open mind.
The first book is Adored by Tilly Bagshawe.
The second book is The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in his Times by Francis Russell.
The third book is The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer.
i love book sculptures. they require great skill and planning, i just wish they weren’t words like “dream” and so on. for me it puts them in that arts and crafts category. maybe he should try a word that a girl would not be using for her tramp stamp :)
way to sabotage books, if you must why wouldn’t you at least make something more interesting. what if someone wanted to read that sometime. That is the point of books when you just want to read something, oops i carved it into little pieces. try whittling you can still be working with the same materials, and even make something useful.
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING !!!!! Makes the book look better than just sitting on a shelf in a bookcase at your home !!!! Very Intriguing and good way to use a used book that will never be read again !!!! BRAVO
I love these! And You people need to chill the hell out, THE PAGES ARE FOLDED, NOT CUT. You can unfold them, and read them again. Maybe you should pay a little more attention to detail instead of rushing to the comments and yelling OMG YOU RUIND THE BOOKS.
It looks really cool, but it hurts my soul to see books like this, unable to be read. It would have been better if they were just journals that had nothing written in them.
I love the concept but, like Rae, I find it sad to see books treated like simple pieces of origami paper. I love books and yes, it would have been a bit better to have used Journals with useless jibberish written in them for this particular project.
How can you you appreciate the concept of this but not the execution? those complaining that the books are damaged or that this is some kind of sacrilage, rationality tells us that BOOKS are being changed, not the literature. and they arent being destroyed, just temporarily altered. anyway its not like these are first editions most likely, or books in a library. some of your souls are just too pure i guess…every time a page gets folded and angel loses its wings, right?
January 18th, 2011 at 2:12 am
Heads up, the artist is Isaac Salazar, Veronica is his wife. Info here:
http://www.etsy.com/people/BookOfArt
January 18th, 2011 at 7:02 am
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January 18th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
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January 18th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
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January 18th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
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January 19th, 2011 at 3:50 am
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January 19th, 2011 at 8:01 am
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January 20th, 2011 at 1:19 am
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January 20th, 2011 at 1:20 am
Je pense que le livre rêve était vraiment mignon. il m’a fait vraiment plaisir.
January 20th, 2011 at 9:17 am
woww, that’s so full of creation ! :D
January 20th, 2011 at 10:04 am
WOW! Very, very nice! What a great piece of art. Thank you for sharing!
January 20th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
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January 21st, 2011 at 12:43 am
[...] Artist Isaac Salazar folds the pages of books to make sculptures. See more here. [...]
January 21st, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Well I’d love to read, but you’ve destroyed my book… thanks!
January 22nd, 2011 at 8:57 am
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January 25th, 2011 at 8:37 am
You just blew my mind.
January 25th, 2011 at 11:16 am
Wowww, this is awesome. Book sculpturing at its best
January 26th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Thats really cool and everything but…now you cant read the book….
January 26th, 2011 at 3:14 am
stop destroying books
January 26th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
@David: Books are not destroyed here..thy are just folded….any way hats off to Isaac Salazar
January 26th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
do u really think this is art ? or just crap ????????????
January 26th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
There are hundreds of crappy books out there that should be turned into art
January 27th, 2011 at 11:17 am
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January 27th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
what in the name of all that is good and pure in the world, would posses someone to destroy books like this?!
January 27th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
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January 28th, 2011 at 12:04 am
WOW! This is wonderful!
January 28th, 2011 at 3:38 am
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January 28th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Are you effing kidding me? What is with all of you mental midgets complaining about “destroying a book”? Are you seriously overlooking the immense skill, talent and creativity it would take to pull something like this off? If anything this furthers the notion that reading allows one to “create” and “dream”. If these books could speak I’m sure they’d be ecstatic to be displayed in such a way. So to all you whiners, pull that stick out of your ass and see the forest through the trees.
All I have to say is this work is stunningly creative and hats off to the ARTIST who realized this beautiful creation.
January 28th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
I love books…why make them unusable?
January 29th, 2011 at 5:50 am
Geez, that’s amazing how this guy can do that?
January 30th, 2011 at 1:00 am
Even thout this is really pretty and cool, it is a waste of books.
January 30th, 2011 at 4:44 am
looks to awesome to be real
January 30th, 2011 at 11:22 am
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January 30th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
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January 30th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
So cool. I liked it a lot.
January 31st, 2011 at 10:47 am
This one is very inspiring
January 31st, 2011 at 1:09 pm
This is truly exquisite! It takes a handful of patience and perseverance to create something as impressive as this. A salute to the artist! There are thousands and thousands of books all over the world, not to mention the numbers of copies per book, so why complain about A few books? Would you thought of doing something as unique as this?
January 31st, 2011 at 7:37 pm
i love this!!!!!!!!!!! as kids we used to fold pages but defnly not on this level! :p
January 31st, 2011 at 8:17 pm
[...] concepto sencillo pueden surgir pequeñas maravillas de impecable ejecución. Éste es el caso de Book of Art, un minucioso trabajo realizado por Isaac Salazar en el que, doblando páginas de libros, ha [...]
January 31st, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Oh well, one book down a million more where it came from. And I am sure no one complains about it cause the books has been paid for, and the books aren’t alive so stop being so damn pessimistic and get a life. I love art. I love this and if you don’t like it. Go jump off a bridge cause you’ll do humanity a favor.
January 31st, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Yeah…What Dan said!! Seriously, these are an amazing work of art. So unique! As many people as there are that THROW AWAY books this is a very creative way to recycle them!! Come on people, for obviously liking to read you really should have more of an open mind.
February 1st, 2011 at 6:57 pm
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February 2nd, 2011 at 5:41 am
For anyone interested:
The first book is Adored by Tilly Bagshawe.
The second book is The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in his Times by Francis Russell.
The third book is The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer.
February 2nd, 2011 at 12:39 pm
if you’re gonna say “waste of books” i’ll say books are a waste of trees
February 2nd, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Kudos to the vision of the artist. Amazing piece of creativity. Cheers.
February 2nd, 2011 at 5:22 pm
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February 2nd, 2011 at 9:14 pm
What a beautiful way to ‘tease’ people into curiousity! Awesome.
Thank you for the inspiration Isaac!
February 5th, 2011 at 2:29 am
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February 7th, 2011 at 1:04 am
read what?… the book you just ruined?
February 7th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
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February 10th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
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February 10th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
I think it kicks ass. As many copies of the sh***y twighligt books there are out there this guy could make them something at least nice to look at.
February 13th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
i love book sculptures. they require great skill and planning, i just wish they weren’t words like “dream” and so on. for me it puts them in that arts and crafts category. maybe he should try a word that a girl would not be using for her tramp stamp :)
February 15th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
There are many artists that have done better things with this medium. It is so dumb to carve “Read” into a book. What message does that send?
February 16th, 2011 at 4:55 am
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February 17th, 2011 at 6:14 am
Isaac Salazars Facebook Page regarding the book art:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Book-of-Art/121650624355
February 17th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
I hope they used really bad books to make this.
February 21st, 2011 at 7:33 am
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February 24th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
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March 11th, 2011 at 5:19 am
way to sabotage books, if you must why wouldn’t you at least make something more interesting. what if someone wanted to read that sometime. That is the point of books when you just want to read something, oops i carved it into little pieces. try whittling you can still be working with the same materials, and even make something useful.
March 12th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
As much as it’s pretty, if the message was “go outside” it would make more sense.
It’s like destroying a sculpture writing a message on it saying “go appreciate sculptures”.
March 13th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
note to self, don’t lend this guy my books
March 13th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING !!!!! Makes the book look better than just sitting on a shelf in a bookcase at your home !!!! Very Intriguing and good way to use a used book that will never be read again !!!! BRAVO
April 4th, 2011 at 3:12 am
I love these! And You people need to chill the hell out, THE PAGES ARE FOLDED, NOT CUT. You can unfold them, and read them again. Maybe you should pay a little more attention to detail instead of rushing to the comments and yelling OMG YOU RUIND THE BOOKS.
April 5th, 2011 at 6:16 am
These inspire me!
April 5th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
it’s creative. it’s inventive. too bad i love books too much to fold or cut the pages like this. haha, but it is cute.
April 9th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
AWESOME!
April 15th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Its amazing…..what an art..
fully appreciated…
April 29th, 2011 at 2:32 am
It looks really cool, but it hurts my soul to see books like this, unable to be read. It would have been better if they were just journals that had nothing written in them.
May 8th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
[...] Book of art. [...]
June 10th, 2011 at 3:23 am
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July 3rd, 2011 at 4:58 am
I love the concept but, like Rae, I find it sad to see books treated like simple pieces of origami paper. I love books and yes, it would have been a bit better to have used Journals with useless jibberish written in them for this particular project.
July 27th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
How can you you appreciate the concept of this but not the execution? those complaining that the books are damaged or that this is some kind of sacrilage, rationality tells us that BOOKS are being changed, not the literature. and they arent being destroyed, just temporarily altered. anyway its not like these are first editions most likely, or books in a library. some of your souls are just too pure i guess…every time a page gets folded and angel loses its wings, right?
August 16th, 2011 at 7:55 am
Ils ont ruiné l’intégrité des pages de livre en les pliant. J’espère qu’ils n’étaient pas de bons livres…