Title: Transgressing the page
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.

"Bombed, burnt books are a difficult topic to address, except thought text and image as documentation. This small book turns to the smaller unit of the book - the page, in an attempt to visually portray a crime against books"--Artist's statement from the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.
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, Mail art, Conceptual art, Artists' books
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, South Africa, Durban
People: Cheryl Penn
Time periods: 21st century