![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Surely you can see the saluki, but can you spot the shuttlecock, the stein, or the sifaka Mike Wilks writes, There is a sketch of a squinch, a selection of. 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. 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. ![]()
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