In the minute before/In the minute after
by Maureen Cummins
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.
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Artists' books, 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, Al-Mutanabbi Street CoalitionTimes
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Title from colophon.
"[T]he result of a collaboration between Tona Wilson and Maureen Cummins, with typographic assistance from Kathleen McMillan. The book was completed in the spring of 2013 as part of the Al-Mutanabbi Project, a community of artists responding to the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street (also known as the Street of the Booksellers), which occurred in Baghdad on March 5, 2007. The book was printed on Arches Cover using silkscreen, letterpress, hand-stenciling and collage techniques ..."--Colophon.
"The artists would like to extend thanks to Swarthmore College and the Book Arts Collection at the University of Washington Libraries for their generous support."--Colophon.
Edition of 25 numbered copies signed by Cummins and Wilson.
Bound dos-á-dos with accordion-folded pages attached to their respective front covers.
Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.
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