A Picture of Poetry: The Artist's Books of Dia al-Azzawi Published by SKIRA. Edited by Louisa Macmilan. Contributions by Francesca Leoni, Nada Shabout, Wen-chin Ouyang, Dia al-Azzawi, Saleem Al-Bahloly. The collected artist's books of a pioneering Iraqi painter Inspired by illustrated Islamic manuscripts and modern book art, Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi’s (born 1939) love of literature informs all aspects of his practice. This volume gathers his artists books from the 1960s to today, a little-known body of work, publishing them in full for the first time.
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