Description
Since 1979, Zimmermann has made many innovative artists’ books integrating photography and printmaking within provocative bindings. This book, with its Turkish map pop-up pages, uses texts to refer to the relentless cycles of war, rebuilding, and destruction. Akin to the book by Luke Stettner, language is a focal point to depict antagonism between belief systems. “Reaper is a meditation on the destructive cycle of violence and war, followed by rebuilding and reconstruction, then war again. … the primary texts of four specific belief systems. ...[It includes] the Rig-Veda, the oldest sacred Hindu text; the Torah (Genesis) from the Jewish faith (the Old Testament); the first lines of the Christian New Testament Bible; and finally, the first ten lines from the Qur’an from Islam.” Description from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers.
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