More art I like: Jacqueline Rush Lee and Marcus Raetz

Jacqueline Rush Lee is an Irish artist now living and working in Hawaii, much of whose work is based around re-using books to create fantastic objects and sculptures.  

Her website here gives more information about her work and practice.  I think it is interesting that she sees books priorly as a material source, and is not too bothered about the nature of the books, or what information or ideas they contained.  She says: 

"I transform used books into works of art by scrambling the formal components visually and conceptually. I like to disrupt the original meaning and intent of the books through various modes of intervention that create narratives with subtle meaning. Many of the techniques that I employ are informed by both traditional and non-traditional artistic practices. These include utilizing the pure components inherent in the books themselves, such as inks, covers, pages, binding threads and reconfiguring them.
For me it is not important to discuss or aggrandize the relevance of the book as a medium in the 21st century as there are themes regarding these matters implicit in the work that I produce. For me great art is evocative, not didactic, and should express ideas through veiled layers of meaning."

This one is called simply Cube.

Marcus Raetz creates sculptural forms which embody illusions: the image changes as the viewer walks round the object.  Some of these use words, such as Yes No,  as here 

You can see more of this and others of his works in this You Tube video accessible here.   

More about the artists and his ideas are here.

Ariana Boussard-Reifel created a unique book by removing all the words and leaving just the white paper.  her piece was part of an exhibition about racial discrimination and religion.  There is more info here about her work.  

This seems to me the most meaningful of all the altered books of this kind I have seen.  It makes a valuable and sharp political point in an elegant and artistic way. creating a beautiful object but one devoid of all meaning.  

In the Collection of Allan Chasanoff, NY

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