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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
encyclopedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and
idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic
commentaries. Surrealism, humor, 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 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. Distributed for The Menil Collection
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