{"product_id":"david-hockney-o-from-hockneys-alphabet","title":"O, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Hockney's letter O 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. A vast white O is reserved from a warm tan ground, its inner and outer edges climbed by ladder-like rungs of black hatching; at the foot a tiny figure mounts a real ladder against the giant letter, Hockney playing letterform against human scale.\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 O 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":45282045067471,"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-o_a66bfc5e-6fa4-4c19-971f-d71b64edc4c4.jpg?v=1782256567","url":"https:\/\/mimesisprojects.com\/products\/david-hockney-o-from-hockneys-alphabet","provider":"Mimesis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}