Art out of hate.More than 600 books in the San Francisco Public Library The San Francisco Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Francisco. Its main library is located in San Francisco's Civic Center, on Larkin Street at Grove. , almost all having gay themes, were carved carve v. carved, carv·ing, carves v.tr. 1. a. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice: carved a roast. b. up for nearly a year before the perpetrator A term commonly used by law enforcement officers to designate a person who actually commits a crime. was caught in 2001. But rather than discard them, as the vandal might have hoped, the defaced de·face tr.v. de·faced, de·fac·ing, de·fac·es 1. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure. 2. To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of. 3. books will become a library, art exhibit called Reversing Vandalism, opening in January. Hundreds of artist have been commissioned to transform the books, many with deep slices and almond-shaped gashes, into their own individually inspired works of art. "Once we got the books back from the police and began photographing the damage, it just got more horrific and creepier and painful," says Jim Van Buskirk, program manager of the library's James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center. "Hopefully, this will raise people's consciousness so this kind of stuff doesn't happen again." |
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