HOCKNEY'S ALPHABET
DAVID HOCKNEY, STEPHEN SPENDER, ET AL.
I picked this book up recently at Pegasus Books in Berkeley. Produced in 1991 to benefit the AIDS Crisis Trust, it features a big-name cast (Martin Amis, Susan Sontag, Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan, Ted Hughes, etc., etc.), each of whom was charged with writing a small piece on a given letter of the alphabet. The essays are by turns charming or sad or funny, but the real star of the show is David Hockney's drawings: one for each letter. I'm busy making color copies of these great drawings to frame up as alphabet cards for our little one's nursery, and I hope she'll always think of the letter "L" as being green and stripey because of it.
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Well done sir, well done.
love this book, would love to remember the letter L as green and stripey as well..
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