Book Autopsies

Brian Dettmer is an American contemporary artist. He alters books without inserting or moving any of the books' contents.

Dettmer seals, then slices and carves into older textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, medical guides, science books, engineering books, history books, comic books, and others, exposing select images and text to create intricate derivative works which impart or reveal new or alternative interpretations of the books.