The Funk & Wag from A to Z

by K. Silem Mohammad, Mel Chin, Ben Marcus, et al.

This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300204507
• ISBN13: 9780300204506
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Menil Foundation
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 8.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 16.9" x 11.4"