Title: Burning daylight
Description: "These books are a typographic interpretation of what happened on March 5th 2007, al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad. The first book uses the text from Jack London's out-of-copyright novel, 'Burning daylight, ' as a metaphor for the economic reasons behind the American and British occupation of Iraq. The second and third books use the same text with a variety of different typographic applications used. They are an attempt to highlight what the car bombing tried to do to the people and texts of the Iraqi literary and intellectual communities. The work hopes to embody the fleetly nature of humanity and the removal of system both social and political"--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, Graphic design (Typography), Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Ireland, Galway
People: John Paul Dowling
Time periods: 21st century