Resilience of Al-Mutanabbi Street
By: Christine Kermaire
Contributors: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Christine Kermaire
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleroi, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
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; Miniature books; Miscellanea; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel)
Description: On March 5th, 2007 a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls ... Now the al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition is issuing a call for book artists to work on a project to "re-assemble" some of the "inventory" of the reading material that was lost in the car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street.
Notes: Red paper with fragments of quote (in Arabic) from Kant's Critique of pure reason pasted to gray paper. Stitched in red silk thread, with trailing ends; bound accordion-style in covers of black-and-gray houndstooth-print fabric over pasteboard.

Created for the "An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street" project to commemorate the 2007 car bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, which was the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community.

Issued in an edition of 300, signed and numbered by the author.

Rare Book (Book Arts) copy: No. 22.

Gift of Christine Kermaire, October 3, 2011

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.