{"id":3663,"date":"2011-01-14T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:05","slug":"book-artist-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/01\/14\/book-artist-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"book artist shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dettmer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-982\" title=\"dettmer\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dettmer.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/01\/dettmer.jpg 398w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2011\/01\/dettmer-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/curiosity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-983\" title=\"curiosity\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/curiosity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Many artists&#8217; books are playful and shenaniganish, but there are a couple who seem particularly worthy of mention on Library Shenanigans. One is <a href=\"http:\/\/centripetalnotion.com\/2007\/09\/13\/13:26:26\/\">Brian Dettmer<\/a>, whose &#8220;book autopsies&#8221; might be considered a librarian&#8217;s nightmare: he carves out the illustrations in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other books and turns them into three-dimensional book sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another is <a href=\"http:\/\/stfj.net\/index2.php?project=art\/2009\/ANTAGONISTIC%20BOOKS\">Zach Gage<\/a>, whose <em>ANTAGONISTIC BOOKS <\/em>set (<em>Danger<\/em> and <em>Curiosity<\/em>) self-destruct in different ways; each can only be &#8220;read&#8221; once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many artists&#8217; books are playful and shenaniganish, but there are a couple who seem particularly worthy of mention on Library Shenanigans. One is Brian Dettmer, whose &#8220;book autopsies&#8221; might be considered a librarian&#8217;s nightmare: he carves out the illustrations in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other books and turns them into three-dimensional book sculptures. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-X5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}