I made this book to contribute to the Library of Reclaimed Books.
When found, this paperback was beginning to fall apart so I carefully dismantled the rest of it removing old glue and threads until I had a set of folio sheets and two covers (the spine was beyond rescue). As the book’s subject matter is contemporary art I decided to change the format to reflect the fact that the development of contemporary art is not linear.
The sheets were reorganised into a new sequence which echoes the fragmented nature of art movements and groupings and by turning the original folios into bifolded pages it now offers a range of readings by making use of the ability to fold back pages.
cloth bound hardback book.
size: 192 x 245 x 19mm
'Contemporary Art' front cover
'Contemporary Art' original cover
'Contemporary Art' original text pages
'Contemporary Art' additional blue pages
'Contemporary Art' folded plates
