{"id":255,"date":"2017-11-09T02:54:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=255"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:37:06","slug":"z2a-a-collage-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/z2a-a-collage-alphabet","title":{"rendered":"Z2A: A Collage Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flore-kunst-xerox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flore-kunst-xerox.jpg 699w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flore-kunst-xerox-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flore-kunst-xerox-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flore-kunst-xerox-210x210.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Z2A: A Collage Alphabet<\/h2>\n<h3>by Allan Bealy and 25 other collage artists<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;26 Collage Artists Explode the Alphabet&#8221; says the cover of Z2A, published by Allan Bealy&#8217;s Benzene Editions in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The book was featured as a News &amp; Notes item in <em>Kolaj<\/em> #11.<\/p>\n<p>We wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Allan Bealy, whose work was featured on the cover of <em>Kolaj<\/em> Issue 5, is releasing the \u201cintimate, no-frills\u201d volume, <em>Z2A<\/em>, in the spring of 2015. <em>Z2A<\/em> is an alphabet featuring the work of 26 collage artists from around the world. Each artist has been randomly assigned a letter of the alphabet and was asked to submit a square collage featuring that letter and word starting with that letter of the artist\u2019s choice. The book is being published by Benzene Editions, an imprint founded by Bealy in the 1980s and resurrected for this project. The book will be 8\u201dx8\u201d. Artist represented include Luc Fierens, Matthew Rose, Joe Castro, Indiana Rogers, Flore Kunst, and Zach Collins.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolajmagazine.com\/shop.html\">PURCHASE KOLAJ #11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Z2A<\/em><br \/>\nby Allan Bealy and 25 other collage artists<br \/>\n8&#8243;x8&#8243;; 60 pages<br \/>\nperfect bound<br \/>\n978-0-692-36234-1<br \/>\n$20 US&#8211;print edition<br \/>\n$5 US&#8211;digital edition<br \/>\nBenzene Editions, New York, New York, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Purchase the book from MagCloud: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/issue\/875147\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Xerox<\/em><br \/>\nby Flore Kunst<br \/>\nfrom <em>Z2A<\/em><br \/>\nCourtesy of the artist and Benzene Editions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Allan Bealy<br \/>\nBenzene Editions, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flore-kunst-xerox.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-47","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}