X ZHENG: {Found}Brain Dettmer Book Autopsies

Recently I am working for the zine book project for my type4 class, while researching how to binding books, I came cross this fantastic rich and beautiful book art that were carve old book into three dimensional by Brain Dettmer, he brings the two dimensional book to three dimensional, I think it is very thoughtful that look book not just book but also into art.

Little information about Brian Dettmer
Brian Dettmer (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his alteration of preexisting media -- such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes -- to create new, transformed works of visual fine art. Until 2006, Dettmer lived in and around Chicago, where he earned a BAi n fine arts from Columbia College Chicago in 1997. During school and following graduation, Dettmer worked as an artist and in positions related to graphics and signage design. In 2006, Dettmer moved with his wife to Atlanta, where he works as a studio artist. (Brown 2008; Camper 2005).

Early Work
In college, Dettmer focused primarily on painting. When he began to work in a sign shop, his work began to explore the relationship between text, images, language, and codes, including paintings based on braille, Morse Code, and American Sign Language. He then began to make work by repeatedly pasting newspapers and book pages to canvas and tearing off pieces, leaving behind layered fragments. (Sasaki 2009; Brown 2008; Camper 2005). In 2000, Dettmer started to experiment by gluing and cutting into books, the medium for which he is now most known. (Brown 2008).