Witness Al Mutanabbi
Contributors: University of Michigan. School of Art & Design; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: University of Michigan School of Art and Design
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Ann Arbor, Mich.]
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; 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: Poem.

" ... produced by Toby Millman's printmaking class at the University of Michigan, School of Art & Design in the fall of 2011. Each student designed and printed a page spread ..."--Colophon.

"Fifteen students in Toby Millman's course, Printmaking for Non Majors at the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan collaborated on the book, Witness Al-Mutanabbi. Students came from academic units throughout the University including Kinesiology, Mathematics, English or Architecture, however one Art & Design graduate student (John Gutoskey) and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow (Katie Zezima) also participated in this project. Each student focused on a different theme, such as value of free expression, violence as a method of censorship, or the history of Al Mutanabbi Street itself. As a whole, the book provides insight into to the layers of responses to the tragedy that occurred that day"--From the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

Limited ed. of 75 copies.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.