Twelve lanterns for Granada
Subtitle: Doce candiles para Granada = Douz lanternes pour Grenade
By: Adonis, Kamal Boullata
Contributors: Adūnīs, 1930-
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Paris
Language: ara
Subjects: Poetry; Serigraphy; Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
Other titles: Granada; Doce candiles para Granada; Douz lanternes pour Grenade
Notes: Portfolio contains twelve colored silkscreened prints, signed and numbered by the artist: Kamal Boullata; two volumes with a poem by Adonis (one volume containing the original Arabic and a Spanish translation, one containing the French and English translations) each volume consisting of a single sheet with dye-cut geometric elements, attached and folded accordion style and mounted in boards, with different language versions on each side of the sheet; and a pamphlet that describes the porfolio. Produced as part of the portfolio "Granada" by artist Kamal Boullata.

Title from pamphlet describing the portfolio.

"The structure of this accordion book in which a poem is punctuated by hand-cut three-dimensional pop-ups attempts to emulate the interplay between architectural elements and poetry carved on Alhambra's walls"--Kamal Boullata : mare nostrum, [2002], p. [13].

Kamal Boullata : mare nostrum, [2002], p. [13]

Poem in original Arabic, with Spanish, English, and French translations.