Trying to Get Hold of Leia Gore

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Social Networking for Book Artists!

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In a word, Lasserre’s sculptures are heavy: both physically - in one piece, participants are invited to make music by dragging a three hundred pound table underlaid with piano strings across a concrete floor - and intellectually. A student of philosophy, Lasserre locates his work clearly outside of any art-historical context, though viewers will likely see a connection to Duchamp’s readymades. In person, Lasserre is thoughtful and articulate, with an artistic sensibility and sense of purpose that seems rare in someone so young. The work itself is impressive, resonant on a number of different levels: thematically, aesthetically, and often, logistically. In one piece, a stack of newspapers, compressed into a solid mass by a bun press found in an abandoned bakery, becomes the building block for a detailed carving of a human skeleton. From a distance, it is impossible to discern the materiality of the sculpture, but on closer inspection, the layers become visible, and the form takes on new meaning - speaking to the material necessity of the work and freeing it from any form of trickery or illusion.

Text by Stacey DeWolfe, from Akimbo

Fiction
tongue carved into the end-grain of fiction novels held together with a vice
7x9x44"
fiction novels, vice, powdered pigment
2007

For other images of works by Maskull Lasserre: http://images.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=3&q=maskull+lasserre&btnG=Search+images

Beautiful Anachronism—Post-War Paintings of Gao Jianfu

As promised, here are the paintings created in very traditional ink-wash (attributed to the Lingnan school) that depict the aftermath and influence of WWI. I am unsure if they were created in scroll form, but I will try to find out.

These works are exceptional, for Gao was an esteemed master of traditional Chinese painting, a style modeled on Japanese Suibokuga (monochrome landscape painting). For a master to depart from conventional subject matter and represent the issues of the contemporary moment was almost unheard of, especially within the strict, formal language of landscape painting!

The results of Gao's sensitivity to the blight of war are quite beautiful, to say the least. I hope you enjoy them!

The Ukulele Books of Peter and Donna Thomas

go to Book Patrol to read about the project

Boxmaking

-here's a blog with lots of bookbinding info. The slipcase isn't made exactly as my demo but you can use it as a useful reference ( for example I omitted step 8). You'll find the clamshell described as well. Look in Top Posts. The link is here.

Link to Bookbinding Instructions:

-here's a site that follows pretty closely my instructions for a case binding (including kettle stitches, weavers' knots, etc.)