Another Alphabet is an art book showcasing hundreds of modern and contemporary artworks that feature letters of the alphabet. The book presents artworks alphabetically and interspersed with excerpts of texts form art historians, poets, philosophers and artists that concern the significance of letters in art. Artists represented include Danh Vo, Paulina Olowska, Ed Ruscha & Raymond Pettibone, Tony Smith, Tim Rollins & KOS, Kay Rosen, Joseph Beuys, Laura Owens, Franz Erhard Walther, Adam McEwen, Bruno Munari, Daniel Buren, Blair Thurman, David Hockney, Anne Truitt, Hazem El Mestikawy, Lynda Benglis, Claes Oldenburg, Pino Pascali, Frank Stella, Shannon Ebner, Jack Pierson, Tauba Auerbach, Paul Thek, Urs Fischer, David Novros, Sol LeWitt, Blinky Palermo, Douglas Huebler, Mark Wallinger, Marcel Broodthares, Carmen Herrera, Brice Marden, Gilbert & Geroge, Philip Guston, Corita Kent, Josef Albers, Paul McCarthy, Damien Ortega, Frances Stark, Ellsworth Kelly, Fiona Banner, Ray Johnson, Cosima von Bonin, David Hammonds, Wade Guyton, Man Ray, Richard Tuttle, Ricky Swallow, Trisha Donnelly, Robert Morris and many more.
A foreword contextualizes the significance of the alphabet letter in art by exploring the letter as a building block of language with individual meanings derived from runes alongside the significance of the formal and representational qualities possessed by letters in the alphabet. This is expanded on in various ways including the significance of the latin alphabet to astrology and the evolution of the form of each letter and its phonemic symbol roots. The foreword will discuss artworks featured in the book including Bruno Munari's 1987 performance, “Alphabeto Lucini” in Milan, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter as the inspiration for Tim Rollins & KOS painting featuring the letter A and iconic Fluxus work by Kurt Schwitters utilizing letters of the alphabet in his compositions among other examples featured in the book. The text will distinguish between art that intentionally reproduces letters of the alphabet and art that highlights formal qualities of letters with a discussion about how working with letters of the alphabet as a subject matter handles language differently than ordinary text does.