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Title
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Material meditation on mending Al-Mutanabbi Street / Scott McCarney
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Description
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Al-Mutanabbi Street, in Baghdad, Iraq, is the historic center of bookselling in that city. In May 2007, a car bomb killed more than 30 people and destroyed many bookstalls. ; This book consists of fifteen two-sided loose-leaf prints made from collages constructed from remnants of found books, rubbings from book bindings and photographs. The leaves are gathered into a tar paper folder. ; Signed by artist/author.
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This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.
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Art Media Workroom copy: #19/50.
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Subject
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Art Media Workroom
N7433.4 .M348 M38 2012
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Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Artists' books. ; Iraq War, 2003-2011 Atrocities. ; Artists' books. ; Atrocities.
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Artists' books New York (State) 2012.
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Baghdad (Iraq) ; Iraq.
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Discover UR
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Creator
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McCarney, Scott.
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Publisher
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Rochester, NY : Scott McCarney Visual Books, 2012.
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Format
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loose-leaf book : illustrated ; 30 cm
