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MY ALPHABET : TREVOR BROWN FROM A-Z

Jonas Kellagher reviews the new book from Trevor Brown, the challenging English multimedia artist who lives and works in Japan.

TREVOR BROWN
My Alphabet
Pan-Exotica, 1999

A children’s book from Trevor Brown? This may sound strange but he manages to push everything just a bit more to the extreme. My Alphabet is a collection with 26 pictures (all in colour) for each of the alphabet’s letters. Every letter has an example of a word and a comment, like S, "Shrinkwrapped: It is difficult to breathe inside a plastic bag, so Susan stopped." On the opposite side there is a picture of a dead (sleeping?) Japanese girl in a rain-coat. It's at the same time beautiful and frightening. Trevor Brown’s art is very varied: it goes from cute, sometimes ridiculous, to nasty to eerie. As I read My Alphabet I'm thrilled, excited and amazed. This is absolutely his best work so far. Totally recommended.

JONAS KELLAGHER – 10 February 2000

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My Alphabet
by Trevor Brown
Hardcover - 60 pages 1 edition (September 1, 1999)
Treville Co. Ltd., Japan; ISBN: 4309903584