Name: Old books reborn as art
Uploaded: 2015-02-06T16:00:42Z
Duration: 5 min 57 s
Description: What do you do with an outdated encyclopedia in the information age? With X-Acto knives and an eye for a good remix, artist Brian Dettmer makes beautiful, unexpected sculptures that breathe new life into old books.

What do you do with an outdated encyclopedia in the information age? With X-Acto knives and an eye for a good remix, artist Brian Dettmer makes beautiful, unexpected sculptures that breathe new life into old books.

Old books reborn as art

By carving outdated books into intricate sculptures, artists reveal hidden layers of meaning and beauty within familiar objects. A single dictionary or a stack of encyclopedias can become a landscape or body, bridging the gap between past information and new artistic life. This process challenges the idea that books lose value in the digital age and instead celebrates their evolving role. Physical books become not just vessels of knowledge, but living, changing works of art.