Titlebook: Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary; Gill Partington,Adam Smyth (Tutorial Fellow) Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a divis

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‘Book Torture’: An Interview with Ross Birrellning in ., exhibited in individual boxes with a copy of Kafka’s final request to Max Brod to burn his works, letters and manuscripts, and also in a series of ‘pop up books’, featuring books burnt in toasters (Kafka’s . Dante’s . the .. Cutting features in ‘Dialogue with Marcel Duchamp’, where Pierre

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The Aesthetics of Book Destructionicately cut into fantastical forms, or chiselled into a solid pistol-shape. In the case of these last three examples, it can then be re-presented in two-dimensional form, as a photographic image. Images of books that have been destroyed through negligence or catastrophe or as the result of acts of w

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Book 2014This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.