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*jkd-kat:iconjkd-kat:
hello everybody - i am proud to be part of it.
Tue Jun 17, 2008, 10:36 AM
*Bamagrrl:iconBamagrrl:
This is a great project.I am glad to be a part of it!! I have so many ideas, Great job!
Sat Dec 15, 2007, 8:15 AM
*Bamagrrl:iconBamagrrl:
This is a great project.I am glad to be a part of it!! I have so many ideas, Great job!
Sat Dec 15, 2007, 8:15 AM
~michelesato:iconmichelesato:
congratulations - nice works!!!
Thu Nov 29, 2007, 12:54 PM
*salshep:iconsalshep:
This is the best thing I've seen in ages. Good work. :)
Mon Nov 12, 2007, 5:13 PM
*ELYPhAS:iconELYPhAS:
James, I love the project, I was traveling and I have too much inspiration...
Wed Oct 31, 2007, 10:45 AM

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Journal Entry: Thu Nov 22, 2007, 11:46 PM
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Brody Neuenschwander Art Great text and book related art.
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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Secret Books: Unpublished Images by Sean Kernan.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]

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 Mexico. The codex is named after the Palais Bourbon in France. [link]

An amazing book from Alphonse Louis Constant, (February 8, 1810 - May 31, 1875) a French occult author and magician, alias ELIPHAS LEVI.
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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:
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The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers.
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A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
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autoportret Issue on "Spaces of Books".
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LIBERATURE: appendix to a dictionary of literary terms by Zenon Fajfer
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Book Art Site (in Polish)
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Piotr Rypson, Books and Pages. Polish Avant-garde and Artist's Books in the 20th Century
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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."
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*liviaa:iconliviaa: Oct 22, 2007, 11:05:25 AM
I REALLY nearly fainted when reading you : I AM MAD with Prosperos Book !!! I am absolutely mad for everything that approaches books or texts. Your idea is simply fantastic. I am sorry I use always these wide big words, but I dont know how to show all my enthousiasm without using these thunderstorming expressions :rofl: !! As soon as I can I shall WILDLY announce about this gallery in my page. Bravissimo James, as always !!

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*liviaa:iconliviaa: Oct 22, 2007, 11:09:44 AM
oH MY :omg: :faint: Brian Dettmer works are beautiful. Cant find other words, I loved discovering him. Thk James for all these news, you REALLY are great !

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*liviaa:iconliviaa: Oct 22, 2007, 11:11:23 AM
where was I in february to miss such an event ??? Now I realize that the club doesnt since today, but since february, I feel ashamed... I'm IMMEDIATELY going to write in my journal

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*lostbooks:iconlostbooks: Oct 22, 2007, 11:13:53 AM
Oh no, not February. Only one month - I started it when I left Surreal Arts Club.
*liviaa:iconliviaa: Oct 22, 2007, 11:15:05 AM
aaah, ... am I going cucu' ?? isnt it written february up on the left ?? :D

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*lostbooks:iconlostbooks: Oct 22, 2007, 11:41:35 AM
Anything is possible at dA, but my screen says September 21, 2007.
*lostbooks:iconlostbooks: Oct 22, 2007, 11:43:09 AM
Thank you, Livia. I have not stirred up much interest yet.
*liviaa:iconliviaa: Oct 22, 2007, 11:47:43 AM
well, lets pull up our sleeves (!! italian expression!) and work on it !!

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*liviaa:iconliviaa: Oct 22, 2007, 11:48:38 AM
ah ? well then it's simply me going cucu' (I still didnt have my dinner :D !!!), I'm going to check

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