Massacre, Drawings from Jerusalem October 8-28, 1990, Heather Spears

Massacre, Drawings from Jerusalem October 8-28, 1990, Heather Spears. Privately published Copenhagen / Richmond British Columbia, 1990. Signed by artist/author inside front. 8vo up to 9½” tall (oblong). 33 glossy pages. An exhibition catalogue with 47 drawings and text. Light wear to card covers and otherwise in fine condition. Heather Spears arrived in East Jerusalem at Maqassad Hospital the morning of October 8th, day of the infamous “Wailing Wall”, or “Temple Mount” Massacre. Drawings of the injured and text of the subjects own accounts are supplemented by news reports, witness accounts and a transcription of loudspeaker voices on amateur video from Al-Aqsa Mosque October 8 1990. In 1989-90, Heather Spears spent 9 months touring the US and Canada with her drawings of wounded Intifada children. They have been exhibited, among other places, at the UN in Geneva, UN Plaza in New York, in Washington, D.C., Oxford, Cambridge and London. Dr. Jonathan Fine, Director of Physicians for Human Rights, has called her drawings “a moving contribution to understanding the suffering of Palestinians under occupation ¿ an instance where drawings and sparse commentary have power transcending almost any other kind of communication.” Heather Spears (born 1934) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and artist who lives in Denmark. Educated at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated in 1962 to Denmark, where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen. Spears is the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry and has won the Pat Lowther Award three times.