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050 4 $aN6868.5.C62$bC45 2014
082 04 $a709.0407
100 1 $aChin, Mel.
245 14 $aThe Funk & Wag from A to Z.$cMel Chin.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press$c2014.
300 $axiii, 305 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 x 43 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 8 $aThis 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.
600 10 $aChin, Mel,$d1951-$tFunk & Wag from A to Z.
650 0 $aCollage$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConceptual art$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPoetry and the arts$zUnited States.
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