[artbooks] Altered Book project in UK

http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/regen1.htm


An online article from the New York Times in April 2006, about an altered 
books project inspired us to do something similar. Long Overdue: Book 
Renewal was a collaboration between Maine College of Art and the Portland 
Public Library. Books that had been retired from the library's collection 
were given to 200 artists who then turned them into works of art. These 
works of art were then re-entered into their library system and became 
available for check out to anyone in the country, thanks to the Inter 
Library Loan system. The books from that project can be viewed online at : 
www.meca.edu/GalleriesExhibitions/Longoverdue.aspx

This instigated something similar with the books that had been boxed up 
for withdrawal from our School's art library at Bower Ashton. Due to 
space, the library didn’t want them back, so this became an artists’ 
exchange project. We had a selection of books from hardback to paperback, 
novels, old exhibition catalogues and manuals, some in good condition, 
some very worn with missing covers or pages.

82 artists took part, selecting a book from the list and returning it 
after they had created a new piece of work with it. The books were sent 
out to artists in the United Kingdom, EIRE, Australia, Germany, USA, 
Denmark, Norway and South Africa to work with and return by March for 
archiving and photographing before the exhibition and swap.

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