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02134aam a2200313Mi 4500 001 71C633744DE711E4A85DE8D9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141007010118 008 140131s2014 ctua 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0300204507 020 $a 9780300204506 035 $a (OCoLC)869726465 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCQ $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d NhCcYBP $d SILO 050 4 $a N6537.C492 $b F86 2014 082 04 $a 709.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Chin, Mel, $d 1951- $e artist. 245 14 $a The Funk & Wag from A to Z / $c Mel Chin. ; Nick Flynn, poetry editor. 246 3 $a Funk and Wag from A to Z 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xiii, 305 pages ; $c 29 x 43 cm 520 8 $a 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. 600 10 $a Chin, Mel, $d 1951-. $t Funk & Wag from A to Z. 650 0 $a Collage $z United States. 650 0 $a Conceptual art $z United States. 650 0 $a Poetry and the arts $z United States. 700 1 $a Flynn, Nick, $d 1960- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210021133.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=71C633744DE711E4A85DE8D9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search