Title: Destruction in art reconstruction
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.

"The book is perhaps the most intimate, easily accessible and portable of all the art forms. The book as a visual medium can provide links and meeting points between art disciplines. Guy Begbie demonstrates this, in his practice as a multi-disciplinary artist"--The artist's personal website (viewed May 15, 2015).
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, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Great Britain
People: Guy Begbie
Time periods: 21st century