Book Dissection: Brian Dettmer

This artist from Chicago takes surgery to a whole new level. He manipulates the pages and spines of different books and then dissects them using surgical instruments. The catch? He doesn't add anything new...he just removes parts of the book to expose what's already there. In an era where information is shown in digital formats in real-time and can be accessed by clicking rather than turning pages, these books show a new way of interaction with the traditional media. It is also a way to reveal -or build- new stories out of old ones. 
"My work is a collaboration with the existing material, and its past creators, and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception" Brian Dettmer.
For your dissection coffee table: Brian Dettmer.

www.briandettmer.com/