Sculptural Bookworks

Sculptural bookworks are almost the antithesis of multiple bookworks. Sculptural bookworks are rarely done in large editions and are often very expensive and almost never handled. Sculptural bookworks often focus more on the book as an object rather than a medium. Some sculptural bookworks are impractical if not impossible or destructive to attempt to read. Such is the case with The Crisis of Democracy by Richard Minsky. The Crisis of Democracy is bound in leather and then wrapped in barbed wire. Reading the book, while possible, is a risky venture that will eventually lead to the destruction of the work. They can even contain more than one book, for instance Bon Bon Mots by Julie Chen contains 5 different books. Bon Bon Mots is shaped to look like a candy box and contains 5 different individual books. While some of them are looser interpretations of the word "book", one is in the form of a magic wallet, they are none the less books.