One volume presents the paintings with introductory text by the artist the other offers the keyed drawings and alphabetical lists of words. Now, The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition brings these two volumes together in this deluxe slipcase edition. Mike Wilks the Ultimate Alphabet the Letter P 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by unknown from. The images in this book were first published in 1986 in the best-selling The Ultimate Alphabet, and later in The Annotated Ultimate Alphabet, in which keys to the images were included. The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition brings two best-selling volumes together in this deluxe slipcase edition. Numbered line drawings accompanied by lists of words serve as keys to the paintings. The reader need not go crazy, however, trying to name all of the words represented in the images (at last count, 7,825!). Each image contains hundreds of items all starting with the same letter. His four-year painting odyssey resulted in a suite of magnificent compilations, all minutely detailed, masterfully rendered, and slightly surreal. The artist Mike Wilks set out in the 1980s to depict as many words as possible in twenty-six images corresponding to the alphabet.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |