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TBR (To Be Read): In the digital age, books have become art and artefacts
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Shredded books at Heman Chong's exhibition This Is A Dynamic List And May Never Be Able To Satisfy Particular Standards For Completeness at the Singapore Art Museum.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
SINGAPORE – In 1855, French graphic artist and illustrator Gustave Dore conceived of a quixotic plan to publish large, expensive folio editions of “all the masterpieces in literature”.
His unique selling point: They would be richly illustrated with his romanticist sketches. The language of his publishers’ rejection is strikingly contemporary.
