This exhilarating overview of the acclaimed<br>artist Vik Muniz traces the development of his<br>work from the very beginning of his career to<br>his most recent astonishing large-scale works. Vik Muniz is celebrated for his joyful, quirky, dark, and<br>occasionally mind-boggling work that riffs on popular<br>photographic imagery, referencing social icons and cultural<br>realities and juxtaposing these themes in fascinating ways. This<br>book features an extraordinary selection of works that span<br>Muniz's entire career--more than 150 color illustrations display<br>the enormous range of Muniz's work and the disorienting and<br>expansive logic of his world. International icon Elizabeth Taylor<br>is portrayed with diamonds with as much reverence as Brazilian<br>landfill workers whose portraits are created from the trash they<br>collect. The Mona Lisa is recreated in peanut butter and jelly.<br>Artist Jackson Pollock is depicted in his studio in a work made<br>entirely out of chocolate syrup. Throughout, Muniz's irreverent<br>and thought-provoking approach to his subjects reveals the<br>shaky underpinnings of universally accepted &quot;truths.&quot;