Artist Adam David Brown, History of Art, Core Samples,
The History of Art: Core Sample
Art History Text Book, Holes, Video Projection
2007

I carefully extracted a two-inch core sample from a recent copy of Janson's History of Art. I then captured a digital image from every page in the core sample. The layers of the core sample can now be examined sequentially as enlarged video projections that are beamed onto the wall next to the reformatted history book.