The Funk & Wag from A to Z

The Funk & Wag from A to ZThis 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 & Wagnalls Universal Standard Encyclopedia (ca. 195356) and began visually re editing. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid century encyclopedia

The rider is slumped over his mount's neck

Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces

Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred

and a magical Winged Unicorn

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in this revelatory new book

in the name of calculation

a whisper from strangers

The best-selling and awarding-winning novel about a Black boy who helps folk heroes and gods through storytelling is now a dynamic graphic novel

and ecstatic freedom and contemplating their meaning will open doors to spiritual experience for us today just as it has for countless practitioners in the past

the backbone of Africa's musical thinking

They battled each other for supremacy and attempted to claim new lands