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Biblio-forensics is an art form.
Just see Brian Dettmer’s examples of what he calls “book autopsies.” Fascinating, time consuming, and, well, just plain cool.
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October 28th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Guillaume, sorry for the late approval of your comment — I was out of town with my wife. No tv, no cell, no computer.
I just looked at the Saatchi stuff and you’re right. It’s just plain weird. Dettmer’s work, though, seems to have a philosophic aspect to it that appeals to me. It shows the relationships between parts of the book almost as if to say that though the words of the page are linear the thoughts and ideas have relationships which go forward and backward, corollary to and building upon other ideas.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
You know, that felt a little macabre. Like the “dissections” that have been popular art lately. (Saatchi Collection)