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Have you Found a Book?

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If you find a book like one pictured here, it is NOT part of the bookstore's inventory. It may become your property just by taking it.

We made six books of these books and left them, one each in five art museum bookstores in Britain and France during a month-long trip in 2017. One stayed home.

Each one was hand-made from tearing the paper for the pages, to drawing on them, book cover making, binding and text writing. The main content of each book is a set of Steuart's drawings made on archival drawing paper. After he drew each group, we talked about the images, the progression or changes between groups in this drawing project and the process of making art, in general. Terry transcriped the conversations and used her best penmanship to write the text in another section of the book. While traveling, we filled in each book with a chatty travelogue / journal, some travel drawings and a bit of a review of art seen just before we dropped off the book in an art museum bookstore.

In all, each book contains five signatures: the drawings, the commentary, the journal, the art review and an introduction. This intro was printed by AlphaGraphics, a commercial laser printer, on cover stock. We used an American paper - Bee - for most of the text pages In hindsight, the last section, our response to the art and scenery that we experienced just before leaving the book, is the most varied and in some cases didn't go as expected.

In Dublin, we didn't pre-buy tickets to see what was apparently a highly-desired Vermeer exhibition. The permanent collection was new to us, and hopefully we wrote some interesting comments about it in the book that was left in their bookstore. The last photos on this webpage show Terry writing in the Irish National Gallery, and finally, holding up some Mona Lisa socks in the bookshop. Book 1 had just been left in the far corner of the shop, in the stacks that appear over Terry's right shoulder.

Normally, we write about contemporary exhibitions — how old art impacts people today, or about work being made contemporaneously, and you can find examples of these at Unsafeart, an online magazine. It's an on-going project to start conversations about contemporary visual art. Feel free to join the conversations at www.Unsafeart.com

If you find yourself in one of these museum bookshops, you can spot our books by their bright magenta/violet book cloth. On the spine, you'll see a drawing in white ink of a stick, and might notice a little loop of red and white butchers string above the spine that gives you a way to tip it out of the shelves.

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If you find this book in a museum, please feel free to make it your own.
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Thanks,
Steuart Bremner & Terry Talty