Future of Al-Mutanabbi Street
By: Christine Kermaire
Contributors: Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Christine Kermaire, éditeur
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleroi, Belgium
Language: eng
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; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Notes: "July 2012."

Artist's book.

Edition of 300; signed and numbered by the author.

Third book in a series of three; 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 center of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community.

Contains nine mounted miniature printed books with marbled paper covers, each containing the same English language text: a poetic passage by Al-Mutanabbi. The first page of each miniature book contains a single letter of the alphabet, which when read from left to right and top to bottom, spells "M-U-T-A-N-A-B-B-I."

Rare Book (Al-Mutanabbi 132) copy: No. 2, signed by the artist.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.

Bound in houndstooth silk-screened cloth.