A few things to note: 1) Ben Denzer created a super valuable document for us sharing some basic bookbinding techniques: drive.google.com/file/d/1gMy5mA33bRXniOVfqJQLNAXOl_meMcJp/view?usp=sharing 2) Ben makes a wide variety of astounding, intriguing work, which you can and should check out: bendenzer.com/ 3) Ben also designed the cover for my book You Are an Artist (!), which you can find here: bit.ly/2kplj2h 4) Last but not least: You should really do this assignment! Give it a try and share what you make on Instagram or Twitter with #youareanartist. I'll look out for them and reshare. - Sarah
@@theartassignment Meat is just like fingers because they are made of the same component parts: muscle, tendons, cartilage, skin and bone. Why this isn't hard-hitting to most people I don't really know. Regardless, it's still a funny, absurdist sounding quote
I discovered this channel this year, and it has become one of my favorite channels of all time. Not only has it brought me insurmountable amounts of creative motivation, it has also taught me so much on how to look at and perceive art, not only mine, but of others as well. I didn't know I could love art this much and I think I owe all of it to this channel. I really do hope they come back to create more videos and assignments when they feel comfortable doing more
What’s interesting about this from my perspective is how binding them into a book affects the object. Can you pay for something with a book of one dollar bills? How fast does a book of meat decompose, and how does that affect its reading? (Perhaps that’s a change of audience - humans to flies!) And of course, these objects are all temporary; we think of books as having to last for a long while, but many of these decompose and change over time. An interesting thought experiment, if nothing else.
On that the objects don´t have to last forever, look at the Fluxus art movement, those who exercised Fluxus focused on the process of making the art over the actual finished product. That would apply to the meat book.
*flashbacks to the infamous meat sculpture of art assignment past* this is the last video before the break, isn't it? if so, wishing you/the team a good break. stay safe and take care :)
My grandfather taught me how to signature sew book bind. He loved to work with leather, and I remember going to the leather factory, cutting and dying the covers, measuring and puncturing the holes into the leather, folding the signatures and sewing them into the leather. We'd try all sorts of patterns with the string, and then sell them or give them as gifts to relatives. One of the highlights of my childhood for sure.
You have no idea how happy this assignment makes me! My favourite joke for two decades has been to interject in an absurd and usually non-sequitur way, “It’s made out of meat.” And here we go! Books made out of meat. So perfect and so great. I am grinning from ear to ear and back around my head to the first ear again. Plus, “Meat is just like fingers!” may be the best thing I’ve heard all week. :D Thank you a tonne!
As someone with a moderately (extremely) consuming obsession with bookbinding, AHHHH!!!!! This is awesome!!!!!! Not many people know about book arts, I really deeply appreciate you highlighting this wonderful lesser known art form ❤️❤️❤️ Currently binding a sketchbook for a still life elective I’m taking, I like how bookbinding intersects art in that way, but also as an art form of its own.
I have made books before - very small ones, be it said, but still, it was quite a process. I am still fascinated by book arts, I've always adored the smell of books, of libraries, of the back rooms of libraries even - where the glue and the twine wait to repair spines and the special fabrics, to repair covers. I admit it's never once occurred to me to make a book AS art - though I've known about the idea, all the examples I've ever seen were standard materials, not something like this. It's summer where I am right now, and the leaves are still green and flexible. Think I'll attempt this assignment with plant materials!
My boyfriend likes to collect cool drink coasters from pubs, bars, and restaurants we visit. He doesn’t do anything with them just has them in his desk drawer. Might just ask him how he feels about us making a book out of them!
I remember Junior year of high school where my art teacher gave us the assignment to create a book not shaped like a book. It was really cool to see what my classmates came up with- especially some more mechanical pieces. This feels like almost an inversion of that- a book that's... Well while it's still a book, the contents aren't traditional. So maybe it's closer to a cousin? Either way this seems like a fun project I really want to try sometime in the future!
I just want to say this is the BEST art channel that is out there. I am obsessed thank you! For all the great inspirational and eye-opening sentiments. 💕💕💕🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
A great assignment , Ben! Way way back in 97 we had an exhibition / performance piece that incorporated something very similar to the meatbook. This fantastic concept artist I knew, who used food in a lot of her art pieces, made a book of prosciutto. It was bound with meat glue ( their is such a thing - transglutaminase). There was actual text inside ( squid ink, applied by tattoo gun) of various poems. So after the readings, the book was battered, crumbed and deep fried. She ate her words. It was hilarious!
SO there is this Portuguese-Brazilian conceptual artist called Arthur Barrio who did the book of meat in 1978. He uses this ephemeral piece to think about the materialism that turn art in captalization. Besides in that time Brazil was under a dictatorship, so we can think about military violence through the material of the work too
I made my own this morning cuting plastic bags I had and using them as the cover. For the pages, I used leaves that had fallen from the trees recently. Overall a great experience, but after that I started thinking otherwise. I mean, doing this assignment amused me, the only issue being that I didn't have a purpose for it so I felt guilty and threw it in the trash can. Couldn't bear to see it suffer alone, all by itself in my desk. If I had made another one, it would eventually become an never ending cycle.
I love this! Having cool artists on this platform talking about their art, interlaced with your commentary and topics in some videos too! This is a great new direction for the channel. Just wanted to let you know how much this will bring the channel to the next level! I've been watching this channel since near the beginning and love these new ideas. #Indianapolis4Ever
dear art assignment, can u do a video titled "the case for fashion" please? i love your "the case for-" series, btw. thank u sm for making art less terrifying :)
I know art exists to stimulate discussion, so I’ll just say: the meat book displays such a callous disregard for sentient life. It’s the perfect emblem of brutal humanity. When we tell ourselves a story about the lesser worth of the other creatures we share a planet with, the other creatures whose consciousnesses have evolved in the same way as ours, we allow ourselves to play games with their corpses. It shows the vicious power of story-telling, of ideology, of propaganda. The meat book - and indeed any real meat art piece - is evil incarnate, a reminder of how sick we can be when we de-personify living beings. The meat book is your dog, your cat, every human that has been de-personified to the point of extermination in the course of history. A very chilling piece.
Thank you Philophos for so eloquently putting into words my visceral reaction to this project. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who found this deeply disturbing. Also quite disappointed in the Art Assignment for highlighting this work.
@philophos, Thank for your great comment. There is a wonderful line in Lindsay Ellis' new novel, _Axiom's End,_ “Would you consider a fear of billions of flesh-eating aliens illogical?” The thing we human beings are the flesh-eating aliens and the line is spoken by a displaced, traumatize alien who is in desperate situation on our own beleaguered planet. I. for one, do not need or want a meat book and for me such a book would NOT be art. I'd suggest that if someone is intent on making such a silly, cruel object and pretentiously labeling it "art" should at least use *bologny* as this "art's" medium.
This was a great video, and incredibly creative work! Thanks, Ben. As a poet, I'm excited to see what renditions of zines/chapbooks could be made with this approach.
I really like the idea of making books with atypical material I'm going to try this out But won't lie that meat book makes my skin crawl. I don't know why but I can't help but imagine animals are conscious and what they will feel after looking at that
...now I'm trying to think of glue substitutes that are edible + wouldn't ruin the flavors involved, 'cause there's plenty of food structures that are already book-like, they just won't hold together if handled like one.
omg this is giving me flashbacks to my second year bookbinding elective @ OCAD! Making an atypical book was my final project for the year, Such a cool video!!! ⭐️
I got a compilation book of extremely fun but incredibly odd Zines made by PaperRad. lol so i've been thinking about bookbinding for a while. if you don't know them you should google 'em.
Love the small bits doodles on his shirt. What brand shirt is he wearing? It looks damn oversharpen effect😍Btw, this could be a damn great NFT COLLECTION bro🥰
Book of human with the front face of the book your face. The spine is your spine. The back is your back skin. The pages are made from your skin with your diary written over them with your blood.
The artist in me loves this concept. The teacher-in-a-Title-I-district-in-me cringes about how privileged a person must be to turn money and food into art. I once excitedly raved about how I saw an artist at a mustard festival making art/caricatures with different types and colors of mustard, and one of my middle school students responded with "that's wasting food!"
@@theartassignment a friend has been collecting different plastic ice bags for years with the idea of printing the graphics of each onto stiff acetates until he has a stack the size of an ice block then binding them. wish to hell he'd get it finished...
Book nerds who love history should check out Christopher De Hamel’s “Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into The Medieval World.” It’s a beautiful, lavishly illustrated book about illuminated manuscripts.
Just based off of the color of his shirt and the way it interacts with the camera and lighting makes it look like he was shirtless and they added a CG shirt
A few things to note:
1) Ben Denzer created a super valuable document for us sharing some basic bookbinding techniques:
drive.google.com/file/d/1gMy5mA33bRXniOVfqJQLNAXOl_meMcJp/view?usp=sharing
2) Ben makes a wide variety of astounding, intriguing work, which you can and should check out: bendenzer.com/
3) Ben also designed the cover for my book You Are an Artist (!), which you can find here: bit.ly/2kplj2h
4) Last but not least: You should really do this assignment! Give it a try and share what you make on Instagram or Twitter with #youareanartist. I'll look out for them and reshare.
- Sarah
@artassignment is art assignment going to be realeasing new videos soon? I look forward to new videos and finding out more about the art world.
GENOCIDE OF BEAUTY: CULTURAL MARXISM IN THE ARTS
Lame Cultural Marxism
Conceptual bullshit
@@katiekaufenberg7395 😔
"Meat is just like fingers" I need that on a shirt
That was really funny and I guess true?
That statement has been echoing around in my head for weeks since we recorded this. So glad we can now share this revelation with you 😆
@@theartassignment Meat is just like fingers because they are made of the same component parts: muscle, tendons, cartilage, skin and bone.
Why this isn't hard-hitting to most people I don't really know. Regardless, it's still a funny, absurdist sounding quote
Miss these guys hope they come back
Who knew I would miss Art Assignment so much!☹
miss this channel so much 🥺😭
I discovered this channel this year, and it has become one of my favorite channels of all time. Not only has it brought me insurmountable amounts of creative motivation, it has also taught me so much on how to look at and perceive art, not only mine, but of others as well. I didn't know I could love art this much and I think I owe all of it to this channel. I really do hope they come back to create more videos and assignments when they feel comfortable doing more
bring this channel back
What’s interesting about this from my perspective is how binding them into a book affects the object. Can you pay for something with a book of one dollar bills? How fast does a book of meat decompose, and how does that affect its reading? (Perhaps that’s a change of audience - humans to flies!) And of course, these objects are all temporary; we think of books as having to last for a long while, but many of these decompose and change over time. An interesting thought experiment, if nothing else.
On that the objects don´t have to last forever, look at the Fluxus art movement, those who exercised Fluxus focused on the process of making the art over the actual finished product. That would apply to the meat book.
I miss this channel so bad...
This is genuinely my favorite youtube channel I hope everyone is doing alright!
I loooove books, as objects I mean. I think I have to try this.
you should! would love to see what comes of it: #youareanartist
Same!!!
I super miss this channel :( I wish there’d be an update video to say when you might be coming back.
*flashbacks to the infamous meat sculpture of art assignment past*
this is the last video before the break, isn't it? if so, wishing you/the team a good break. stay safe and take care :)
SAME (and yes it is! I couldn't leave you without something to do.)
@@theartassignment I'm still not over Mike ending Idea Channel
@@Mjhaider1985 sadness
My favorite TH-cam channel, cant wait for the next upload
Love this channel so much. I binge watch all the "case for" videos often and discovered my love for art history
My grandfather taught me how to signature sew book bind. He loved to work with leather, and I remember going to the leather factory, cutting and dying the covers, measuring and puncturing the holes into the leather, folding the signatures and sewing them into the leather. We'd try all sorts of patterns with the string, and then sell them or give them as gifts to relatives. One of the highlights of my childhood for sure.
You have no idea how happy this assignment makes me! My favourite joke for two decades has been to interject in an absurd and usually non-sequitur way, “It’s made out of meat.” And here we go! Books made out of meat. So perfect and so great. I am grinning from ear to ear and back around my head to the first ear again. Plus, “Meat is just like fingers!” may be the best thing I’ve heard all week. :D Thank you a tonne!
As someone with a moderately (extremely) consuming obsession with bookbinding, AHHHH!!!!! This is awesome!!!!!!
Not many people know about book arts, I really deeply appreciate you highlighting this wonderful lesser known art form ❤️❤️❤️
Currently binding a sketchbook for a still life elective I’m taking, I like how bookbinding intersects art in that way, but also as an art form of its own.
Im gonna miss this videos, they are amazing
I see this book plug for "You Are an Artist", and I accept it, and embrace it. :D
This video is so whimsical, creative, and innovative! Ben is a delight, brings light to my day!
I know you told us you were slowing down... I hope you are ok and we can't wait for you guys to come back
I have made books before - very small ones, be it said, but still, it was quite a process. I am still fascinated by book arts, I've always adored the smell of books, of libraries, of the back rooms of libraries even - where the glue and the twine wait to repair spines and the special fabrics, to repair covers. I admit it's never once occurred to me to make a book AS art - though I've known about the idea, all the examples I've ever seen were standard materials, not something like this.
It's summer where I am right now, and the leaves are still green and flexible. Think I'll attempt this assignment with plant materials!
My boyfriend likes to collect cool drink coasters from pubs, bars, and restaurants we visit. He doesn’t do anything with them just has them in his desk drawer. Might just ask him how he feels about us making a book out of them!
Yeeeesssss, book arts was my favorite class in college!!!!! The possibilities are endless!
Why is this channel dead? Its such a cool thing! 😞
I remember Junior year of high school where my art teacher gave us the assignment to create a book not shaped like a book. It was really cool to see what my classmates came up with- especially some more mechanical pieces.
This feels like almost an inversion of that- a book that's... Well while it's still a book, the contents aren't traditional. So maybe it's closer to a cousin? Either way this seems like a fun project I really want to try sometime in the future!
I miss this channel.
Same 😔
Same 😐😔
I miss you!!
Waiting anxiously for an episode on NFTs! Hope its coming! Miss this channel!
i cant even express how much i love this? i love this so much. i am sitting here and i am overjoyed. im going to go make a book
I just want to say this is the BEST art channel that is out there. I am obsessed thank you! For all the great inspirational and eye-opening sentiments. 💕💕💕🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
This immediately got my daughter crafting “a new kind of book” with cutouts in paper she had bound together. We love this channel and the You Are book
A great assignment , Ben!
Way way back in 97 we had an exhibition / performance piece that incorporated something very similar to the meatbook.
This fantastic concept artist I knew, who used food in a lot of her art pieces, made a book of prosciutto. It was bound with meat glue ( their is such a thing - transglutaminase).
There was actual text inside ( squid ink, applied by tattoo gun) of various poems.
So after the readings, the book was battered, crumbed and deep fried. She ate her words. It was hilarious!
SO there is this Portuguese-Brazilian conceptual artist called Arthur Barrio who did the book of meat in 1978. He uses this ephemeral piece to think about the materialism that turn art in captalization. Besides in that time Brazil was under a dictatorship, so we can think about military violence through the material of the work too
That really adds meaning to this concept, thank you
@@TreceLunasProject maybe you like this artist instagram.com/ricardo_rangels
I really liked a lot of those books! I think the fortune cookie book and the Splenda one are going to stick in my brain for a bit 🤯
This channel has had a profound effect on my life and I miss it very much. Can anyone suggest some other channels like it?
Try th-cam.com/users/PerspectiveArtsvideos
I miss this channel :"P
as always, i learned more than i expected. thank you for meat binding techniques as well as knowledge of binding terminology.
Don't let Lady Gaga see that meat book.
She's a poser since that dress was made during the 1950s
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 uh oh guys the art police is here
I made my own this morning cuting plastic bags I had and using them as the cover. For the pages, I used leaves that had fallen from the trees recently. Overall a great experience, but after that I started thinking otherwise. I mean, doing this assignment amused me, the only issue being that I didn't have a purpose for it so I felt guilty and threw it in the trash can. Couldn't bear to see it suffer alone, all by itself in my desk. If I had made another one, it would eventually become an never ending cycle.
This is a perfect video. I love the quirky creativity book making can bring about.
Woot! A new assignment!
Is this the last Art Assignment video?
I love this! Having cool artists on this platform talking about their art, interlaced with your commentary and topics in some videos too! This is a great new direction for the channel. Just wanted to let you know how much this will bring the channel to the next level! I've been watching this channel since near the beginning and love these new ideas. #Indianapolis4Ever
The trial and error meat picture looks quite scary. I love it!
Pls give us a case for nfts or why nfts? Need some logic
dear art assignment, can u do a video titled "the case for fashion" please? i love your "the case for-" series, btw. thank u sm for making art less terrifying :)
This assignment would pair very lovely with your "art book" project from early May
I miss this channel! Please bring it back!!!
I know art exists to stimulate discussion, so I’ll just say: the meat book displays such a callous disregard for sentient life. It’s the perfect emblem of brutal humanity. When we tell ourselves a story about the lesser worth of the other creatures we share a planet with, the other creatures whose consciousnesses have evolved in the same way as ours, we allow ourselves to play games with their corpses. It shows the vicious power of story-telling, of ideology, of propaganda. The meat book - and indeed any real meat art piece - is evil incarnate, a reminder of how sick we can be when we de-personify living beings. The meat book is your dog, your cat, every human that has been de-personified to the point of extermination in the course of history. A very chilling piece.
Thank you Philophos for so eloquently putting into words my visceral reaction to this project. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who found this deeply disturbing. Also quite disappointed in the Art Assignment for highlighting this work.
BumblingDolphin Obviously they didn’t mean it to be that deep, but cruelty breeds happily in shallow thought.
@philophos, Thank for your great comment. There is a wonderful line in Lindsay Ellis' new novel, _Axiom's End,_ “Would you consider a fear of billions of flesh-eating aliens illogical?” The thing we human beings are the flesh-eating aliens and the line is spoken by a displaced, traumatize alien who is in desperate situation on our own beleaguered planet.
I. for one, do not need or want a meat book and for me such a book would NOT be art. I'd suggest that if someone is intent on making such a silly, cruel object and pretentiously labeling it "art" should at least use *bologny* as this "art's" medium.
OOOOH I love this video! Both eye-opening, entertaining and educational. Good Job TAA!
I wonder what's The Art Assignment's take on NFT's
Psst it’s time to return
This is such a fun way of looking at things as potential books
ah! i just saw the meat book on a ig post, great timing, i'll see what i can do :)
oh i miss your vids, sarah 😭
Same
This was a great video, and incredibly creative work! Thanks, Ben.
As a poet, I'm excited to see what renditions of zines/chapbooks could be made with this approach.
I love this, but I wonder about the sustainability especially of meat/using resources ... the use of lottery tickets etc. is great
I really like the idea of making books with atypical material I'm going to try this out
But won't lie that meat book makes my skin crawl. I don't know why but I can't help but imagine animals are conscious and what they will feel after looking at that
Where did they go
...now I'm trying to think of glue substitutes that are edible + wouldn't ruin the flavors involved, 'cause there's plenty of food structures that are already book-like, they just won't hold together if handled like one.
omg this is giving me flashbacks to my second year bookbinding elective @ OCAD! Making an atypical book was my final project for the year,
Such a cool video!!! ⭐️
I love this! Great finding for my research works!!
Missing u :(
Imagine the smell of a book burning using the meat books.
I miss you please comeback 😭
I got a compilation book of extremely fun but incredibly odd Zines made by PaperRad. lol so i've been thinking about bookbinding for a while. if you don't know them you should google 'em.
What do you for the cover???
such a wonderful idea, i’ll have to give this a try.
have a go at this idea perhaps: a bread book, entirely made of bread.
I think stitching that would be fun!
Oh no I read the title wrong and made a typical book instead!
This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
Love the small bits doodles on his shirt. What brand shirt is he wearing? It looks damn oversharpen effect😍Btw, this could be a damn great NFT COLLECTION bro🥰
when the videos comin back man?
I miss this channel so much! Hope all you guys are doing fine.
Go Blue! I love Ann Arbor and especially Zingerman's!
Your books are amazing!!! Where I could buy those fabrics for making the hardcover?
I can’t wait to start this project!!!
Book of human with the front face of the book your face. The spine is your spine. The back is your back skin. The pages are made from your skin with your diary written over them with your blood.
I know this channel will probably never post again but I still come back and check in every once in a wile anyway
Also I think a video from this channel talking about AI art would be super interesting
The artist in me loves this concept. The teacher-in-a-Title-I-district-in-me cringes about how privileged a person must be to turn money and food into art. I once excitedly raved about how I saw an artist at a mustard festival making art/caricatures with different types and colors of mustard, and one of my middle school students responded with "that's wasting food!"
Had this channel stopped?
I ADORE THIS
I need a video on neoexpressionism I’m ready interested in it but can’t seem to find much about it
What a fun concept. Can't wait to add the deli books drawer to my fridge
Can you make an Ice book? I kinda wanna have a go....
Yes! Would love to see an ice book.
@@theartassignment a friend has been collecting different plastic ice bags for years with the idea of printing the graphics of each onto stiff acetates until he has a stack the size of an ice block then binding them. wish to hell he'd get it finished...
Thank you for making this vid! Im inspired!
Book nerds who love history should check out Christopher De Hamel’s “Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into The Medieval World.” It’s a beautiful, lavishly illustrated book about illuminated manuscripts.
This was so good! I have to try this
@the art assignment: Happy Biiiirthday Art Assignment! 🥳🥳 with a little delay! 🥰❤
Come back 😔
Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis has a great library of unusual books like this.
Just based off of the color of his shirt and the way it interacts with the camera and lighting makes it look like he was shirtless and they added a CG shirt
A juicy read.
can you guys please do a video on ivan seal, thanks
I Just discouver your channel...very interesting..this is going to take time to discover!
That book is good enough to eat. Literally
I like your works. art begins with everyday objects around us. I also present the same thing, and now I try to explore it through my video. regards
can you do the case for keith harring or Basquiat
Great art nice job,keep it up😃👍....