A digital archive of Asian/Asian American contemporary art history

Book of the World

100x100 inches (h x w x d)
2000
miniature artist books

"In his 1808 Atomic Theory, the English scientist John Dalton described the world as composed of molecules and atoms much like a book is composed of letters and words. The text is on silver paper and the images are on transparent paper in magnifier boxes. This is a series of 100 miniature books with images of Dalton's elastic fluids drawing that look like the eye."
-- Irene Chan

Each box 1"x1"

Style/Period

book objects; bookworks
Book of the World
Source: Slide