{"product_id":"david-hockney-f-from-hockneys-alphabet","title":"F, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Hockney's letter F comes from \u003cem\u003eHockney's Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty-six letters as full-page colour lithographs. Hockney builds the F as collage: its upright is cut from an aerial photograph of a sunlit coastline of hills and sea, a second F is brushed in solid black below a drawn horizon, and a red biro sun throws out its rays — landscape, letter and light folded together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHockney's Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise funds for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Hockney drew each of the twenty-six letters, and Spender invited a celebrated writer to respond to one apiece — among them Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan — pairing image and text in a singular dialogue between art and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the individual F plate: a colour lithograph on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, measuring 12 3\/5 × 9 2\/5 in (32 × 24 cm), from the edition of 250, signed on the justification page by the artist and editor (a copy accompanies the work). Offered unframed; framing is available for an additional $295.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Hockney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45282043920591,"sku":null,"price":1295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/3438\/7407\/files\/hockney-alphabet-f_2d90a0e0-9d28-41ff-85c7-88bd1cc557ef.jpg?v=1782256486","url":"https:\/\/mimesisprojects.com\/products\/david-hockney-f-from-hockneys-alphabet","provider":"Mimesis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}