ARTICLE | Altered Books
Wear This Book (but Bring It Back Friday)
By Amy Sutherland
Source: New York Times
TO make room for shiny new books, librarians cull the texts that have been loved literally to pieces, as well as volumes that haven't been stamped with a due date in years. The rejected books are given away, tossed in Dumpsters, melted in acid, even burned — visions that could stop any author's pen in midsentence. It is, as the librarian Michael Whittaker puts it, the book-lending world's dirty little secret.
Mr. Whittaker works for the Portland Public Library in Maine, where a small portion of such ill-fated books are given a new life as art. And this art can now be checked out at public libraries across the country.
Read the entire article online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/arts/design/23suth.html?ex=1146542400&en=6a00efc04a79c486&ei=5070&emc=eta1
By Amy Sutherland
Source: New York Times
TO make room for shiny new books, librarians cull the texts that have been loved literally to pieces, as well as volumes that haven't been stamped with a due date in years. The rejected books are given away, tossed in Dumpsters, melted in acid, even burned — visions that could stop any author's pen in midsentence. It is, as the librarian Michael Whittaker puts it, the book-lending world's dirty little secret.
Mr. Whittaker works for the Portland Public Library in Maine, where a small portion of such ill-fated books are given a new life as art. And this art can now be checked out at public libraries across the country.
Read the entire article online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/arts/design/23suth.html?ex=1146542400&en=6a00efc04a79c486&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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