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"Book Surgeon" Transforms Old Books Into Astounding Sculptural Art

New York artist Brian Dettmer is known as the "Book Surgeon" for the skillful way he transforms old books into impossibly intricate sculptures.

Dettmer attacks old textbooks, encyclopedias and atlases with tweezers and scalpel to excavate his vision. Most of these tomes are out-of-date and headed for the landfill anyway, but Bettmer doesn't think he's destroying anything.

"My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators," he says, "and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements, exactly where they have been since their original conception.”

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