With only a pair of household scissors, glue and the passion of a lifelong reader, artist Jodi Harvey teases out paper sculptures from the pages of her customers’ favorite books. “I like to think of ...

To create an average-sized bust, Li manually glues together over 5,000 pieces of paper in a honeycomb pattern, using pressure to hold them together. He then saws, cuts, and shapes the paper mass down ...

Irving Harper: Works in Paper by Irving Harper (artist) and Michael Maharam (editor) Skira Rizzoli 2013, 176 pages, 8.3 x 10.3 x 1.1 inches ...

South African artist Barbara Wildenboer thinks of books as living things. In her art, she operates on them, cutting apart old books to reveal the sprawling yet delicate central nervous systems trapped ...

Some artists sculpt from marble or bronze. Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer, however, chisels his art from books. For years, Dettmer has made fascinatingly original sculptures in which he contorts, ...

Serious readers often have many bookshelves full of old books and one artist is doing something constructive with them. Su Blackwell has put together a breathtaking collection of odes to classic ...

In our increasingly digital world, it can sometimes feel like physical books and paper products are going the way of the dodo. That is, of course, good news for the environment, but a real loss in ...

The category of "books about books" may seem a perversely specialized one, but many serious readers and almost all passionate collectors eventually want to learn more about the potent rectangular ...