Inbunden, Engelska, Tyska, Franska, 2017

Art Record Covers

Av Francesco Spampinato, Julius Wiedemann

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Beskrivning

Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance.In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 500 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter.Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, Damien Hirst’s symbolic skull for the Hours, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2017-01-13
Mått: 293 x 293 x 45 mm
Vikt: 3 849 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska, Tyska, Franska
Antal sidor: 448
Förlag: Taschen GmbH
ISBN: 9783836540292

Utforska kategorier

Grafisk design

Mer om författaren

Francesco Spampinato is a writer and historian of contemporary art and visual culture. He holds degrees from the University of Bologna and Columbia University, and a PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle University. From 2011 to 2015, he was an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and since 2019 he has been a senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna. Author of several books and regular contributor to magazines and academic journals, he focuses on how contemporary artists interact with the media and everyday life in his own academic research.Julius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.

Recensioner i media

“Celebrates the records and artworks we’ve loved and re-loved over the decades.”

Betyg & recensioner

1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

5/5 Rockdoc 2017-02-22
The gramophone record, invented in 1877, is 140 years old this year (2017). The illustrated record cover arrived in 1939 (thank you Alex Steinweiss). Many pop and rock musicians in the 1960s had art school backgrounds, often reflected in their record covers. By the 1970s books of record covers were appearing to highlight the connection between music and design. A (very) few such books were devoted to particular artists/designers. Now Taschen has produced an encyclopaedia of record cover art by recognised artists. Over 500 covers are pictured with a description of the artist's work.
This hard cover book is beautifully produced. It is almost LP-sized with many of the covers full page on heavy duty paper.
Of course, in a book like this there was always going to be a favourite artist who a collector might miss (I missed Klaus Voormann), but that's a small price to pay for such a wonderful guide through Art Record Covers.