Name the painting

[stlukesguild]

Our artist's works was inspired by... and employs part of the result of one of the most recent man-made disasters. It is at once a comment upon the the fragility of culture and history and a accusation of those who allow for the destruction of the past.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hmmm, tough one.
The demolition of an historical library?
Flooding of New Orleans?
The destruction of the printed word by the overwhelming forces of E- readers, computers ?

Looks like the name on one book is "E. B. "Zeke" Colvan" ?

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[mortalterror]

I remember that guy. Saved a bunch of books from the Baghdad library after it was looted and burned and made ****ty art out of them. God, those are terrible.

[MarkBastable]

I rather like them.

[mortalterror]

I rather like them.

Someone always will.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I remember that guy...

What guy?


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[mortalterror]

What guy?

'Bout a year or two ago, some guy posted on the forum, how in 2003 when Baghdad was invaded the museums and libraries were looted and burned. He saved a couple of books from the rubble, took them home, and made those pieces StLuke's posted. He has a little blog about it he linked to somewhere, about what it's like living in Iraq with no electricity and stuff. Stlukes was all for this guy's stuff 'cause it looks just like the garbage he used to make, and I remarked on the irony of saving books from a fire to make art that should be burned. I don't remember which thread it was.

[stlukesguild]

I wouldn't put much store by Mortal's art criticism. He has about as much of an eye for art as you average teenage headbanger... with cataracts. By his standards pretty much the whole of 20th century art is an abomination... except for those artists who paint as if it were still the 19th century... or earlier.

[stlukesguild]

By the way... mortal has dropped enough clues that finding this artist shouldn't be much of a challenge.

[mortalterror]

By his standards pretty much the whole of 20th century art is an abomination... except for those artists who paint as if it were still the 19th century... or earlier.

I like plenty of artists who worked in the 20th and 21st centuries. The late impressionists, Alma-Tadema, Repin, Hunt, Rodin, Boldini, Dali, some Picasso, Magritte, Lempicka, Stuck, Ernst, Escher, Marc, Bacon, Chagall, Hasui, Hopper, Klimt, Mucha, Malczewski, Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Renau, Camarena, Helnwein, Melamid, Tubke, Triegel, Cappiello, Levy-Dhurmer, Varo, Banksy, Fairey, The Mac, Blume, Jess, certain Nerdrum, Biggers... I just don't like the one's you like.

[stlukesguild]

I've been able to find the art through a Google image search employing phrases such as "Iraqi Art Destroyed Books" "Iraqi Collage Damaged Books"

Really... with Mortal's clues this shouldn't be that hard.

[mortalterror]

Really... with Mortal's clues this shouldn't be that hard.

Yeah, 'cause all the college kids have a Qasim Sabti hanging on their dorm room wall. I might as well solve it. Over at his website http://www.qasimsabti.com/gallery_books-covor.htm the picture you posted is listed as #40 Book cover & collage 35 X 25 cm 2004. I couldn't find another name.

[mortalterror]

[mortalterror]

Chinese, Ming dynasty.

[mortalterror]

The work is Buddhist.