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Jul 15, 2014 · The Funk & Wag from A to Z: Chin, Mel, Flynn, Nick, Bang, Mary Jo, Bervin, Jen, Hayes, Terrence, Hutchinson, Ishion, Klein, Michael, Lentine, Genine, Marcus, Ben ...
Mar 14, 2012 · The Funk & Wag from A to Z. installation view at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX. A popular, vintage encyclopedia is processed to represent contradictory layers and logic of personal and public information. The images have been extracted from all twenty-five volumes of a 1953-56 Funk & Wagnall Encyclopedia and reconfigured ...
Jul 15, 2014 · 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 encyclopedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and idiosyncratic ...
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Over 500 black-and-white collages are accompanied by twenty-five poems, one per encyclopedia volume, commissioned by Chin and author Nick Flynn specifically for this publication. Writers range from the well-known to the surprising. The Funk & Wag from A to Z offers mischievous fun with pointed commentary and hilarity.
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- Mel Chin
The result is The Funk & Wag from A to Z, with 524 volume-specific, precisely cut-and-pasted collages. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served the words of a populist 1950s encyclopedia have been reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and sardonic humor to make social and artistic commentaries.
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.
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.
