Alphabet Body

Author Unknown, Book Facsimile Page. Pastimes at Home and School: A Practical Manual of Delsarte Exercises and Elocution. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1897.

Blake, William. Sketches.
The William Blake Notebook, Letter m (
N64).
The William Blake Notebook,- Letter y (N74).
The William Blake Notebook,- Studies for Letters p,h,x,s,a  (N75).

 Cangiullo, Francesco. "Letter V" Caffè Concerto - Alfabeto a Sorpresa (Café-Chantant - Unexpected Alphabet) 1916 & 1919.

Cottingham Robert.  Color lithograph.  An American Alphabet: J   1997.  http://www.tandempress.wisc.edu/tandem/gallery/cottingham/j.htm

Downing Elaine L.  Multimedia Folded Paper. ABC . 1998.     http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/gallery/abecedarium/abc1.htm

Erte (Romaine de Tirtoff). Lithograph/Serigraph. The Alphabet Suite, "A" , "Z". 1976 .  http://www.erte.com/alpha.html
All Erte Images ©2003 Sevenarts Ltd, London UK

 Filipas, Mark. Image from Art as Letterform (Part 1). http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Essays/delta.html

Glier, Mike. Paintings.  Alphabet of Lili,  "Q" . 1991. http://www.williams.edu/Art/glier/alpha/

Johns, Jasper. Alphabet. 1969.

Johnson Stephen. Pastel and watercolor. Alphabet City,  "A". 1995.

        Marinetti, Franciso. Book Page Les mots en liberté futuristes (The Futurist words-in-freedom), 1919.

Narbut, Hryhorij. Abetka Letter "M": Illustration for a Ukrainian Alphabet book. 1917.

Philips Tom. Painting. The Cloak of Mercury. 1991. http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/painting/cloak/

 Soffici, Ardengo. Book Cover, BIF¤ZF + 18. Simultaneità e Chimismi lirici (BIF¤ZF + 18. Simultaneity and Lyric Alchemies), 1915. http://www.colophon.com/gallery/futurism/14.html

Scherman Rowland,  Chris Thomson. Photograph. Love Letters - Dancers in Covent Garden, London.  1975. http://www.mindspring.com/~lartigue/LOVE_PAGE.html

Several images of anthropomorphic alphabets and a three dimensional alphabet embodied in a sculpted book on sheet of  paper.

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