Altered Books
Altered Books involve the transformation of an existing book into a new work. Options include physically changing the form of a book or hollowing it out. Another approach is to attach objects and materials to an existing book in a meaningful way.
Image: Pamela Paulsrud, Touchstone
Books Made from Recycled Materials
You can make a book about anything and you can make a book out of anything. If you think of a book in terms of its most fundamental essence--a container of pieces of information--the possibilities of what a book can look like and be made from become wide open.
Here are some artists' books in the collection made from re-sourced materials:
https://blogs.massart.edu/artistsbooks/2016/04/07/mary-jane-by-amy-turcell/
https://blogs.massart.edu/artistsbooks/2015/11/19/inner-workings-by-laura-davidson/
If you're looking for free materials, check out the entrance to the Library where we often put out discarded books and of course the MassArt ReStore located in the basement of Kennedy.