The river ran black with ink
| Description: |
linocut. Edition of 35. The River ran black with ink: The title refers to the Siege of Baghdad in 1258, in which the city was sacked by the Mongol empire. The Grand Library of Baghdad, the House of Wisdom, containing books from all over the world, was destroyed. Survivors from that time said that the waters of the Tigris ran black with the ink of scholars and red from the blood of the people. When Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling and street culture, was car-bombed in 2007, the river once again ran black with the ink of accumulated knowledge (Retrieved from IUCAT November 4, 2019). |
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| Origin: | 2015 |
| Created By: |
Marti, Fernando |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Publisher: |
(San Francisco, CA, USA) |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1285 |
| Collection: |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
artists book art bookworks |
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