| Description | Sulter originally created 'Zabat' for Rochdale Art Gallery to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the invention of photography in 1989.
Richon's text was published in 'Portfolio' magazine, no. 8 (Summer/Autumn 1990), pp. 8–13.
Text mentions the Muses of Greek mythology, Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Library of Alexandria, Africa; French, German, and English languages; Denis Diderot's novel 'Les Bijoux indiscrets' (1748), the Christian Crusades, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Edinburgh, Great Pyramid of Giza, Sigmund Freud's book 'Moses and monotheism' (1939), and Judeo-Christian values. |