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Collection	Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)	Ellis, Elsi Vassdal
Title	Al-Mutanabbi I
Alternate Title(s)	Al Mutanabbi Street I
Date	2011
Press(es)	EVE Press
Physical Description	[112] p.: col. ill.; 15 x 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Bombings -- Baghdad Booksellers and bookselling -- Baghdad Sh?ri? al-Mutanabb? (Baghdad, Iraq)
Description	"I have avoided revisiting Iraq for a few years now. The multi-layers of war and politics, internal and external to Iraq, created a black hole in my creative life. I needed to take a sabbatical from my attention to this war. When invited to participate in An Inventory of Al Mutanabbi Street by Beau Beausoleil, I girded up my loins, so to speak, and opened the Iraq door again. This is the first of three editions on Al Mutanabbi Street. It is a meditation upon the book as container, as cultural artifact, as ideas in corporeal form. It calls out the names of booksellers, book buyers, book browsers who were killed on Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad, Iraq. It also acknowledges the many journalists who have also sacrificed themselves for the revealing the truth about Iraq. There are many landscapes explored between the non-linear narrative and the images of slowly decaying books. The reader is gently reminded that we are all moving, some gently, some violently, towards decay, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." --artist statement . Hand sewn binding . "The layout was executed in InDesign CS5.5. The printing was done on an Epson Stylus Photo 1400"--Colophon . Library's copy is no. 32 in an edition of 36, signed by the artist . Photography . Adobe InDesign . Computer application.
Book Type(s)	Artists' books Typefaces (Type evidence)
Binding	Case binding Drop spine case binding (Gary Frost)
Process/Technique	Adobe InDesign Computer application Photography

Collection	Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)	Ellis, Elsi Vassdal
Title	Al-Mutanabbi I
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Al-Mutanabbi I

Al-Mutanabbi I

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