McCarney's carefully hand - bound editions and found -
altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).
Not exact matches
Spertus took real
books and made fake covers for them, often
incorporating imagery and themes from within the
books themselves, but
altering them with subtle humor and a conceptual rigor that made the texts appear not as art or beautiful objects, but as engaging reading material (what any
book, at least traditionally, is meant for).
Mountain My Yes and Other Densities
incorporates an
altered copy of James Joyce's Ulysses, a projected image of the
book, a sound piece with a vocal script loosely based on lines from the novel, and a series of oil / pastel paintings, depicting a panorama of mountains and mist with the text
incorporated into the imagery.