Title: Looking at the ice seller
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.

"Looking at the ice seller is inspired by the ice seller story in Iraq, and the notions of self as 'here' and identity as archaeology. Identity Archaeology poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó"--The Book Arts at 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, Artists' books, Archaeology in art, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Great Britain
People: Zsuzsanna Ardó
Time periods: 21st century