Collections
Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response to the Bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street / exhibition coordinator, Mary Austin ; catalog design, Pam Hava (based on design by Kathleen Burch) ; copy editor, Samantha Hamady.
Exhibition catalogue
REF.PM.2694
63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
2014
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.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the San Francisco Center for the Book, December 12, 2014 - January 25, 2015.
A car bomb or suicide bomb exploded and killed 26 people on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, on March 5, 2007.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the San Francisco Center for the Book, December 12, 2014 - January 25, 2015.
A car bomb or suicide bomb exploded and killed 26 people on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, on March 5, 2007.