fuckyeahbookarts: Free Hi-Res Old Book Textures(For personal and commercial projects!)
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The Most Powerful Poster on Books I’ve Ever Seen
Just came across this. Apparently it’s been making rounds on the internet for a while, though no one seems to know the name of the artist. This is what books — real books — are written for.
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"Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors."
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose via bookoasis
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booksnbuildings: 1570 Palladio’s influential and famous “Four Books on Architecture”; illustrated here is the Pantheon in Rome.
This sounds like so much fun. Would love to be in CA for this.
HARRY POTTER TRIBUTE EXHIBITION
stilllifequickheart: 1899 John Frederick Peto (American 1854-1907) ~ Still Life with Books and Inkwell
