William Blake : altered book
| Description: |
Cover title. An altered book, edited and with an introduction by J. Bronowski, of William Blake : a selection of poems and letters (Harmondsworth [England] ; Baltimore, Md. : Penguin Books, 1958). Medium: Penguin book and fire. Sarah is an artist who lives and works in Monmouthshire, South Wales. She is an interdisciplinary artist working in various media such as print, drawing and painting, artist books, photography and moving images. Originally, Sarah specialised in architectural stained glass at the art school, which is now Swansea Metropolitan University. She completed her MFA at Bath Spa University in 2004, and in 2013 gained a post-graduate diploma in multi-disciplinary print at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her main areas of exploration are memory, place and the liminal. The burnt books are a homage to the books burnt and damaged by the bombings in al-Mutanabbi street. I imagine myself there finding half-burned books, and after the horror, reading extraordinary fragments of texts. My acts of book burning are inverted demonstrations against censorship and cultural cleansing |
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| Origin: | 2012 |
| Created By: |
Rhys, Sarah |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/757 |
| 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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