Making bread, (not bombs)
By: Tara Bryan
Contributors: Walking Bird Press (Flatrock, N.L.); Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: walking bird press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Artists' books; Specimens; Bread; Religious aspects; Violence; Pictorial works; Booksellers and bookselling; Bombings; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Protest movements; Books and reading in art; Intellectual life; Social conditions; Censorship; Terrorism in art; In art; War and civilization; Vehicle bombs; Visual literature; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Description: 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.
Notes: Publication information from colophon inside wrapper.

Accordion-style book, folded and joined into 20 panels, with interlocking cuts.

A two-sided flag book, inkjet printed both sides on Red River Premium Matte double-sided paper using an Epson 4880 inkjet. The pages are laser cut and scored, and trimmed, folded and assembled by hand.  The wrapper is Cave Paper, tied with linen twine. -- Tara Bryan website (viewed April 9, 2014).

"This edition of 75 books is the result of the cross-pollination of two projects, Al-Mutanabi Street Starts Here and Book-Art-Project.  Car bombs and breadmaking converged in the Fertile Crescent to bring forth a hybrid book....On one side, breads of the world are arranged by timezones, on the other side, the numbers show the date, number killed and number injured for all the suicide and car bombings in Iraq in 2007." -- Colophon.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.