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).
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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