Altered Book Art

Frank Turek's book assemblage art

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fin de siècle

This is a single image from the gallery fin de siècle an altered book art work by Frank Turek
altered book assemblage artwork by Frank Turek

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fin de siècle was last modified: October 14th, 2020 by Frank Turek

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My technique is in the margins of the dominant trend in altered book art. Most altered book artists will utilize the existing book as a whole as the source material. For them, the pages and their manipulation become the focal point of the piece. My approach is to gut the pages entirely and use only the book’s cover.. [Read More]

About the Artist

Frank Turek is a born and raised New England artist. His aesthetics and philosophy reflects the regional zeitgeist of Emersonian transcendentalism mixed with Continental European thought.
Since 1984 Turek has been residing in the quiescent little burg of Portland, Maine where he quietly works away on his boxed assemblage art.

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Common aspects of these boxed assemblages.

$500 bill anatomy armor bird black and white photo boat bottle cat children's book collaged cards colored glass color photo comic book dice disembodied head drawer etching illustration fabric sample floral Florida flowers game card game piece glass grammar primer green interior decorating list of words lithograph illustration magazine photo medical illustration mirror painting paisley plastic figures playing card portrait postcard primer purple red rusted metal toy vials wallpaper pattern
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