Z, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Slim Aarons seems to simultaneously critique and

seems to simultaneously critique and participate in this phenomenon

Two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore Mountain Resort

March 1968

one might draw parallels to Basquiat's "Charles the First" (1982) or "Hollywood Africans" (1983)

Two Whales (with People)

Z, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Slim Aarons seems to simultaneously critique andDavid Hockney's letter Z comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. An orange outlined Z shows its magenta side face in shallow three dimensions, resting on a base of blue and white gingham with a hatched pen shadow falling behind the letter built like a small painted block. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in