Video: Library of Brick Books, an art project by Daryl Fitzgerald
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When they say that knowledge is strength, they hardly mean physical strength, sports and muscles. Although if you study from books from an amazing library Daryl Fitzgerald, this statement can be taken literally. And the fact is that the weighty volumes of the classics of foreign literature, standing on the shelves, are in fact just ordinary bricks. Not granite, but the brick of science, which the humorist offers to gnaw at the books, is an art project called Literature Heavyweights, that is, Heavyweight literature. Indeed, among the brick books you will not find a single "thin" volume, quite often solid thick volumes that teachers usually recommend for reading to high school students, students and all those who strive for self-improvement and self-development. And some of them are so hard to read …
A talented artist and illustrator, Daryl Fitzgerald decorates bricks found on the street, turning them into antique, ancient books that would serve as a decoration for any bibliophile's collection. Tolstoy's War and Peace, Orwell's 1984, Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the writings of Sigmund Freud and famous philosophers - the list of brick books is truly impressive. Moreover, the artist often chooses those works that are of particular interest to him. Has he read all these books? Quite possibly. Or he plans to do so in the near future.
By the way, decorating your apartment with such an installation will be very useful for those who love jokes and pranks, creativity and creativity, and of course literature.
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