Street of booksellers
By: [Frances Jetter.].
Contributors: Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: F. Jetter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: 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; Specimens; Artists' books; 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: "In Street of Booksellers the voices of long-dead poets continue to speak to us, from the 'heads, tails, spines and bodies' of books burned, broken, bulldozed and buried on Al-Mutanabbi Street, and other streets beloved of writers and readers."

Edition of 25.

Accordion extending from the back pastedown. Linocuts. Carved wood covers.

"Political and social subjects have been the focus of Frances Jetter's prints. She has created illustrations for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, and The Progressive. Her relief prints are in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, Detroit Institute of Arts, and The New York Public Library -her artist's books are included the Library of Congress' Rare Books and Special Collections, The New York Public Library's Spencer Collection, University of Washington, Seattle, Stanford University and others"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.