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 ...

Some people like to write, publish, or read books. Others prefer to dissect, carve, shred, sculpt, and otherwise mutilate books in ways both beautiful and strange. The ninth annual Art of the Book ...

“Tip + Top on the Moon” (1965), with art by Vojtěch Kubašta (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) The innovative paper engineering of an overlooked Czech artist is currently filling the ...

Jodi Harvey-Brown has a somewhat different take on the notion of pop-up books. She uses novels, biographies, and books of short stories as both the inspiration and materials for her open book paper ...

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 ...

A set of paper sculptures by an anonymous artist has raised more than £50,000 at auction Each piece depicts a classic of Scottish literature The funds will be used by the Scottish Book Trust to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...