Bible Gun by Robert The.

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Book & Lit on February 24, 2007 at 7:02 pm


In 1995, Robert The sawed a King James Bible into the shape of a pistol:

I transform books so they can evangelize their own relevance via their direct fusion of word and form. With my book guns, I find old books in dumpsters and thrift store bins and lovingly cut them into revolvers, automatics, and sub-machine guns. Vandalized and self empowered, they can assert themselves against the culture that turned them into debris.

Link | Text From The Center for Book Arts – via Cynical-C


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8 comments to "Bible Gun by Robert The."

  1. Denita TwoDragons
    February 24th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    "evangelize their own relevance"..."lovingly cut them into revolvers, automatics, and sub-machine guns"..."Vandalized and self empowered"...

    Uh...mmkay.

    --TwoDragons

  2. Fitz
    February 24th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Hmmm I made a ton of these for friends back in 1993 in my sculpture class. Nice to know nothing is new under the sun. Gideons hold up better.

  3. Alex
    February 24th, 2007 at 10:47 pm

    Yeah, I gotcha Denita - artspeak!

  4. Denita TwoDragons
    February 24th, 2007 at 11:31 pm

    *LMAO* Yep! Like Corporatespeak but with more poetry to it... ;-)

    --TwoDragons

  5. Bumper Guy!
    February 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    Let me see now . . . this thing has a trigger (firing mechanism), a barrel, a stock/grip and it fires projectiles . . . so it is called a "gun" which includes everything from a missile launcher to a BB gun, be it a pistol, revolver or rifle. It could be mounted on an airplane, tank, water vessel or inside your pocket.

    The gun banners only focus on "civilian" weapons. But it is perfectly OK for these same gun banners to sanction weapons of mass destruction! Why? They are either stupid or they want your freedom on a silver platter! Beware of both!

  6. Denita TwoDragons
    February 25th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    No offense Bumper Guy, but what does this have to do with the subject at hand? Besides the most tenuous of links, of course...

    --TwoDragons

  7. Gomonkeygo
    March 31st, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    Bob's been doing this since at least '91, I know. I saw his first piece back then and have a Colt .45 he did shortly after, but it's not from a Bible. He also has made nice little cars from books for kids to play with. Wheels and all. I guess they graduate to guns in middle school.

  8. Ag
    March 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    curioso no mas


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