...for the subscription.
I have been neglecting this club for many moons now, and I'd like to apologize to the members and friends of The Lost Book Club and Museum. I will set aside some time next week to do some catching up and perhaps make some decisions about where to go from here.
-James Koehnline
WHAT IS THE LOST BOOK CLUB AND MUSEUM? It is a gallery of fragments, both text and image artifacts, connected by a common theme: The Deconstruction and Reimagining of Books and Book Culture in our Post-Literate Age.
EXAMPLES: Fragments of ancient texts in forgotten languages, scientific & technical illustrations from unknown sciences and technologies, false starts of books, covers or title pages for non-existent books, impossible bindings, enigmatic fragments of torn burned or rotted pages from mysterious religious works, histories, cosmologies, fragments of art, diaries, found poetry, interesting scraps of paper found in the street, books made of unexpected materials or hollowed out to contain unexpected objects, banned, burned, forbidden, unfinished, unwritten books, unidentified alphabets, hieroglyphs, ideograms, iconography, books from prehistory, books from the future, books from parallel universes, books with built-in lenses and peep-holes, pop-up books with animated scenes, magical books, books of pressed flowers, pressed bugs, pressed dreams and nightmares, catalogs of stains and odors, unnatural histories, abnormal philosophies, Readers' Digress condensed and compacted books, Books of tree rings and geological strata, books of Tibetan sand paintings that spill into the gutters as you turn the pages, broken books exposing their inner workings, or with their guts spilling out, neodada collage, putting bits of image and text together haphazardly like the early attempts to reassemble dinosaur bones, books made of folded-spindled-mutilated IBM punch-cards, books written in UPC code, suggestive receipts and office memos, shopping lists and telephone doodles, fragments of catalogs of fragments of catalogs of fragments, et cetera, et cetera...
(The above list of examples is, itself, a good example of an acceptable text submission)
SUBMISSIONS: Entries may take the form of images of these artifacts, text descriptions of physical artifacts, text excerpts from lost books, and/or image and/or text explorations of things related to the main themes of this club. As with other clubs, you submit via note with a link to the image or text already placed in your personal gallery.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I, James Koehnline
shall be, for the foreseeable future, the sole curator, librarian, gatekeeper and judge, making all decisions regarding what gets into the club gallery.
If the quality is high and the quantity sufficient I may have discussions with the contributors of the best submissions regarding the possibility of publishing a real book in the form of a catalog of our imaginary museum.
I am looking forward to hearing from you who find this an interesting experiment.
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIESTo be a member you must add the club to your Friends List, and choose your membership category. There are to be two categories, and you are welcome to sign up for both, if you like.
1. DONORS: This is for those of you who intend to submit works from your own galleries to The Lost Book Club and Museum. Submitting as a Donor does not guarantee posting, but it does guarantee careful consideration of the suitability of all pieces submitted, and you get your avatar on the front page and will be invited to participate in contests and such.
2. SCOUTS: This is for those of you who will be on the look-out for exhibits for our museum, whether by simply being attentive to the work of friends and the work you happen to see around dA, or by actively scouring the dA universe for artifacts for our museum. You may then act as go-between or simply note me about prospects and I will check them out. Scouts are also encouraged to help me build a LINKS page, for appropriate materials outside of dA. As a Lost Book Scout your avatar will appear in a separate roster on the front page.
If interested, note me.
OUR MEMBER ROSTERSDONORSSCOUTSSCOUTS HONOR ROLLOur Scouts Honor Roll starts off with two of you:
, who helped to spread the word of this club, pointed out some great work and brought in several enthusiastic members,
and
, who has brought to my attention many treasures here at dA, as well as great resources from beyond for our Links Page [link] Thanks to you, and to all who are helping this club grow and evolve.
A FEW INSPIRATIONS:The fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
[link]Peter Greenaway's film "Prospero's Books"
[link]Writings and Projects of Hakim Bey
[link]Recent Exhibition at the Seattle Asian Art Museum: "Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art"
[link]Ernie Kovacs' "Eugene" TV special (especially the library scene, of course)
[link]LINKSBrody Neuenschwander Art Great text and book related art.
[link]Jean Benoit's "Encasement for the Manuscript of Les Champs Magnetiques" ("Les Champs Magnetiques" or "The Magnetic Fields", 1920, was a book by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault, which Breton called the first surrealist book). This is a page scanned from the catalog of the 1976 World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, "Marvelous Freedom, Vigilance of Desire". I spent a lot of time there. I also inserted a couple other small photos of this remarkable book cover:
[link]Secret Books: Unpublished Images by Sean Kernan. Photos that didn't make it into his book of Borges-inspired images:
[link]Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.
[link] Also:
[link]Internet Sacred Text Archive The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
[link]Undeciphered Scripts:
[link]The Codex Borbonicus is an Aztec codex written by Aztec priests shortly before or after the Spanish conquest of México. The codex is named after the Palais Bourbon in France.
[link]Rare Book Room: A company called "Octavo" embarked on digitally photographing some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution.
[link]THE OCCULT: An Exhibition of material from the Monash University Library Rare Book Collection 4 June-24 July 1998:
[link]Science and the Artist's Book, an exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Washington Project for the Arts is an exhibition which explores links between scientific and artistic creativity through the book format:
[link]The Getty Museum: The Artist Turns to the Book. This 2005 exhibition features works from the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, which holds over 5,000 artists' books and several artists' archives:
[link]CFPR Artists' Book Exhibitions & Events Archives:
[link]Sudanese Zoomorphic Calligraphy on BibliOdessey:
[link]The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers.
[link]A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
[link]Autoportret Issue on "Spaces of Books".
[link]LIBERATURE: appendix to a dictionary of literary terms by Zenon Fajfer
[link]Book Art Site (in Polish)
[link]Piotr Rypson, Books and Pages. Polish Avant-garde and Artist's Books in the 20th Century
[link]The Smallest Book in the World
[link]Technion Researchers Succeed in Putting Entire Bible on Head of Pin
[link]The Guild of Bookworkers: The National Organization for All the Book Arts.
The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts."
[link]Fresh Pics: Amazing Art with Books [link]
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