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The Funk & Wag from A to Z
- Title
- The Funk & Wag from A to Z / Mel Chin.
- Author
- Chin, Mel, 1951-
- Publication
- Houston, Texas : The Menil Collection, [2014]
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [date of distribution not identified]
- ©2014
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQH 14-2 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 305 pages : chiefly illustrations; 29 x 43 cm
- Summary
- This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopaedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk & Wagnall's 'Universal Standard Encyclopedia' (ca. 1953-56) and began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-century encyclopaedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic commentaries. Surrealism, humour, sarcasm, politics, history and beauty permeate these sometimes raucous, often confounding, but consistently stunning images. Over 500 black-and-white collages are accompanied by twenty-five poems, one per encyclopaedia volume, commissioned by Chin and author Nick Flynn specifically for this publication. Writers range from the well-known to the surprising. This book offers mischievous fun with pointed commentary and hilarity.
- Alternative Title
- Funk and Wag from A to Z
- Subject
- Call Number
- JQH 14-2
- ISBN
- 9780300204506
- 0300204507
- OCLC
- 869726465
- Author
- Chin, Mel, 1951- author.
- Title
- The Funk & Wag from A to Z / Mel Chin.
- Publisher
- Houston, Texas : The Menil Collection, [2014]
- Distributor
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [date of distribution not identified]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JQH 14-2