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Edited by Annelys de Vet Designed by Annelys de Vet English 160 pp / 220 x 165 mm / paperback price € 16.50 ISBN 978 90 6450 648 2 published 2007, available |
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| For more information on the book and to download the free pdf please visit: www.annelysdevet.nl/palestine |
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| Best Dutch Book Design 2007 Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine? All too often the Western media show the country’s gloomy side, and Palestinians as aggressors. It is this that makes identifying with them virtually impossible. If we are to relate to the Palestinians other images are needed, images seen from a cultural and more human vantage point. The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression. The drawings, photographs, maps and narratives made for this atlas reveal individual life experiences, from preparing chickpeas to a manual on water pipe smoking, from historic dress to modern music. Pages containing humorous and caustic newspaper cartoons and invented Palestinian currency followed by colourful cultural diaries and moving letters from prisoners. All in all, the contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory. In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media. |
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| A moving, beautiful, poetic and at times heart breaking book. While reading the atlas the atlas I could hear the sounds of the traffic, smell the fresh herbs on the market, smile about the humour, feel sad about the political prisoners and the children that grow up under occupation. | ||
| Adri Nieuwhof at Indymedia.org, October 7th 2007 | ||
| Een klein juweeltje! | ||
| Arthur Bruls at Palestina-komitee.nl, November 20th 2007 | ||
| Reading the Subjective Atlas of Palestine, one feels it is about home, and certainly it is an hour’s perusal in which you will not think about war or occupation. Could be that an admittedly subjective view is in fact the most accurate. | ||
| Culiblog.org, January 13th 2007 | ||
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