Book Sculptures

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Tref

That's fine, if your idea of a second life is as an autopsy.

But, hey, I do not want to make a bigger deal of this then is warranted but like the entrepreneur who wanted to buy up fine art in order to slice it up and sell it in pieces, "So everybody can own a piece of the great artists," it makes me uneasy.

These aren't invaluable books, however. I'd be upset if he carved up a first edition of Moby Dick, or if he made a sculpture using the last known copy of something, but I don't think that's the case.

Whereas most fine art is one of a kind, and ripping it to shreds for entrepreneurial purposes is shameful. Unless it was a painting made in the 1980s, because most of those works are expendable. Heh. I kid.