Celsius 233.
by [Spaceheater] Philip Zimmermann
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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About This Item
Tucson, Arizona:: Spaceheater Editions,, 2015.. Edition of 50. 6.5 x 9"; 40 pages including covers. Acid-free French Paper. Images printed using archival inkjet ink with three-color foil stamping on the cover, the title page, and the back cover. Interior flame sheets are loose-inserted in a slot in each interior folio. Hard-bound using a multi-needle coptic stitch with sewn-on hard covers made of acid-free solid-core black museum board. Signed and numbered by the artist. Laid in acid-free phase box. Philip Zimmerman: "I started doing research on the history of book-burning after seeing a video posted by the Islamic State/Daesh showing jihadists burning all the books from the Mosul Library in Iraq. I found that burning books has a long and infamous history dating back a couple of thousand years. Most people know about the Nazi's burning books as well as the famous Ray Bradbury book 'Fahrenheit 451', but it turns out that almost every authoritarian regime (and some are nominally not authoritarian like the United States) has burnt books that do not agree with its cultural and political viewpoints. The book contains 40 pages displaying acts of libricide in chronological order. The title page spread includes a famous quote by Heinrich Heine, whose own literary work was included in some of the book burnings orchestrated by the Nazis in the 1930s. Inserted small orange laser-cut tongues of flame describe the date and action of each image through time. The images were obtained on-line, mostly from the Library of Congress, the National Archive, and the National Holocaust Museum, plus some educational Institutional archives. A list of image credits appear in the colophon.
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- Bookseller
- Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21799
- Title
- Celsius 233.
- Author
- [Spaceheater] Philip Zimmermann
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition of 50
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Spaceheater Editions,
- Place of Publication
- Tucson, Arizona:
- Date Published
- 2015.
- Keywords
- Artists' Books Artists' Books Arizona artist War & Peace Religion & War Libraries Banned books
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- Folio
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- Title Page
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- Colophon
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