Fractured terrain
By: Karen Kunc
Contributors: Eco, Umberto; Eco, Umberto; Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Blue Heron Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Avoca, Neb
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; Poetry; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Description: "Amercian artist Karen Kunc explores inventive colour abstractions of the natural and human-fashioned world, creating visual impact and ideas of strange beauty. Kunc is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist to over 100 institutions. Recognitions include: the 2007 Southern Graphics International Printmaker Emeritus Award; Fulbright Scholar Award to Finland; prizes in the Triennale Majdanek, Poland; 5th Sapporo Biennale; 2nd Bangkok Triennale"--Statement from the Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

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: The poems and excerpts are from Umberto Eco's Baudolino (2000) and from the poem Sojourn in the parallel world by Denise Levertov.

"Various worn handset types are paired with excerpts from admired authors, all printed letterpress. The plates are copper line etchings and polymer, printed intaglio and relief, and mokuhanga woodcuts. The paper is Japanese Nishinouchi, all set into covers of hand printed aquatints."--Colophon.

Edition of 25 impressions.

Poems.

Signed by author.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.