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050 4 $aN7433.4.S544$bW37 2011
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100 1 $aSiff, Elena Mary,$ebook artist.
245 10 $aWar and peace /$cElena Mary Siff.
260 $a[Santa Monica, Calif.] :$b[E.M. Siff],$c[2011]
300 $a1 artist's book (unnumbered pages) :$bcolor illustrations ;$c11 x 14 (closed)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aPrinted in an edition of 3.
500 $aMedium: Collage, handmade paper.
500 $aIncludes several well-known quotes on the subjects of war and peace. One quote is from Mao Tse-Tung: "Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed." Another quote is from Jeanette Rankin: "You can no more win a war, than you can win an earthquake."
500 $aOn March 5th, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is located in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the longstanding heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community for centuries. In response to the attack, a San Francisco poet and bookseller, Beau Beausoleil, rallied a community of international artists and writers to produce a collection of letterpress-printed broadsides (poster-like works on paper), artists' books (unique works of art in book form), and an anthology of writing, all focused on expressing solidarity with Iraqi booksellers, writers and readers. The coalition of contributing artists calls itself Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition.
520 $aThis 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.
520 $a"Creating my 3 books, I used handmade paper in a miniature format ... an intimate narrative with a quote by Al Mutanabbi: 'If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think the lion is smiling at you.' I included other quotes by writers and philosophers concerning the futility of war throughout the ages. I burned fragments of the paper I made, and attached the fragments to the pages of each book ... destruction in the midst of poetry and enlightenment"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.
545 $aAs a collage and assemblage artist, Elena Mary Siff's unique books are an extension of her work in mixed media. The sculptural works and text pieces derive from her background in assemblage art, where she has an established reputation. Siff has been creating books as part of her exploration of visual space, volume, movement and color for many years. She is constantly exploring and expanding the artistic paradigms of the book as object. Her work is in the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, the UCLA and UCSD Special Collections Libraries, and the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., among others. Her books have been in international book festivals in Ireland, Vilnius, and the Seoul Korea Book Arts Fair.
600 10 $aSiff, Elena Mary.
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650 0 $aBombings$zIraq$zBaghdad$y21st century$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xProtest movements$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aBooks and reading in art$y21st century$vPictorial works.
651 0 $aIraq$xIntellectual life$y21st century$vPictorial works.
651 0 $aIraq$xSocial conditions$y21st century$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aCensorship$zIraq$zBaghdad$y21st century$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aTerrorism in art$y21st century$vPictorial works.
651 0 $aIraq$vIn art.
650 0 $aWar and civilization$zIraq.
650 0 $aVehicle bombs$zIraq$zBaghdad$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aVisual literature$vSpecimens.
650 0 $aCultural property$xDestruction and pillage.
650 0 $aCollage, American$vSpecimens.
650 0 $aWar in art.
650 0 $aPeace in art.
650 0 $aMiniature books$vSpecimens.
650 0 $aAssemblage (Art)
650 0 $aArtists' books$zCalifornia$zSanta Monica.
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650 7 $aWar in art.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01170504
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655 7 $aMiniature books (Printing)$2rbpri
655 7 $aCollages (visual works)$2aat
655 7 $aArtists' books.$2rbgenr
700 1 $aMao, Zedong,$d1893-1976,$eauthor.
700 1 $aRankin, Jeannette,$d1880-1973,$eauthor.
700 1 $6880-01$aMutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn,$d915 or 916-965,$eauthor.
710 2 $aAl-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)$5NNC
710 2 $aAl-Mutanabbi Street Coalition.
880 1 $6700-01/r$aمتنبي، ابو الطيب احمد بن الحسين،,$eauthor.
852 80 $brbx$kALMUTANABBI$h226
541 1 $cGift;$aBeau Beausoleil;$d2019-2020.