World of books
By: by Sas Colby
Contributors: Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Sas Colby
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Berkeley, CA.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Artists' books; Catalogs; 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: Includes index.

"World of books began as a commemorative project when I was invited to create a book for the exhibition, An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street, honoring the booksellers of Baghdad, many of whom were killed and wounded in a car bombing in March 2007"--Introduction.

"This is the on-demand version, printed by Viovio ..."--Colophon.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.