A Brief History of Album Covers (new edition)

A Brief History of Album Covers (new edition)
Author: Jason Draper
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781786645555

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In this era of Vinyl revival, celebrate some of the greatest covers of the last 70 years, such as the Beatles’ ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ or Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, alongside entertaining and informative text. This great little book will make an ideal gift for any music aficionado or art and design enthusiast.

The Greatest Album Covers of All Time

The Greatest Album Covers of All Time
Author: Barry Miles
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Total Pages: 761
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1911163361

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With the resurgence of vinyl going from strength to strength, album cover art is as important as it's ever been. This sumptuous book brings together 250 of the greatest album covers of all time and is arranged chronologically, beginning in 1956. Our judging panel, drawn from the great and the good of the music industry, has selected the final 275 entries, giving their reasons for selection to accompany the illustrations. From rock ‘n’ roll to pop, R&B to jazz, blues and even folk, some of the album covers included are obvious classics, while others will surprise readers and jog memories. The chosen entries might not necessarily be of a best-selling release, but they are important artistically, stylistically or culturally. This fascinating book forms a wonderful visual record of this popular art form, and is an essential read for music fans the world over.

Art Sleeves

Art Sleeves
Author: DB Burkeman
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0847868877

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Like a well-made playlist, the album covers in this volume combine to create a portrait of cool and culture desired by art, music, and record lovers alike. Art Sleeves is a time capsule of visual art and music culture as shown through the most important record covers designed by visual artists and graphic designers in the past forty years. This tightly curated collection of covers chosen includes works with significant cultural impact as well as collaborations that themselves created cultural fascination. The eclectic roster of visual artist-musician collaborations presented spans art and musical genres as well as generations, including Ryan McGinley for Sigur Rós, Kara Walker for Arto Lindsay, Peter Saville for Joy Division, Barbara Kruger for Growing Up Skipper, Jeff Koons for Lady Gaga, Tauba Auerbach for Glasser, and Stanley Donwood for Radiohead, to name a few. From postmodernist paintings and minimalism to collage and photography, as well as New Wave, emo, pop, and punk, the albums chosen present a bright and rich visual and cultural history. This inspiring volume celebrates this long creative tradition of visual artist-musician collaborations and, just like a perfect album, it will be treasured by art, music, and record lovers alike.

A Brief History of Album Covers

A Brief History of Album Covers
Author: Jason Draper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015
Genre: Sound recordings
ISBN: 9781783616978

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A Brief History of Album Covers (Updated)

A Brief History of Album Covers (Updated)
Author: Jason Draper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781787552845

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In this era of Vinyl revival, celebrate some of the greatest covers of the last 70 years, such as the Beatles' 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' or Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', alongside entertaining and informative text. This great little book will make an ideal gift for any music aficionado or art and design enthusiast.

1000 Record Covers

1000 Record Covers
Author: Michael Ochs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783836550581

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Vinyl's back in style and in this selection of 1,000 of the most iconic record sleeves from the 60s to 90s, we recall why it's the biggest and best music format ever. Seminal artwork, memorable cover-sleeves, and long-lost classics all jostle for space in this virtual shelf of music history.

To Disco, with Love

To Disco, with Love
Author: David Hamsley
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1250068460

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Over 250 Disco-era album covers-from sexy to silly, elegant to outrageous-that brings alive a time when fashion, politics, and sexuality all converged in harmony on the dance floor. Paging through To Disco, with Love is like catching Saturday Night Fever all over again. From Diana Ross and Donna Summer gazing fiercely from their chart topping albums to the Village People's trademark costumes and the Bee Gee's blinding white jumpsuits, To Disco celebrates the days when the dance floor ruled the world. Gathered together and presented chronologically, these striking covers tell the story of a moment in time when art and photography, music, and dance changed the world. We see a rapid evolution, from the early days when Disco's roots were firmly planted in Soul, Latin, and Jazz, all the way to the digital revolution of the 1980s. Like fleeting moments caught in the strobe, these covers vibrantly capture our takes on fashion and beauty, wealth and status, sex, race, and even God. As the hair gets bigger, bell bottoms wider, and platform shoes steeper, the vibrancy and energy of this moment in music history is brought back to vivid life. Accompanied by insightful, spirited descriptions that showcase the evolving trends in photography, illustration, and design, To Disco, with Love charts the history of the music and the industry during its groovy heyday.

Classic Album Covers of the 1970s

Classic Album Covers of the 1970s
Author: Aubrey Powell
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1908449667

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A stunning collection of over 200 essential and influential album covers of the decade A visual reflection of psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti- design – from Pink Floyd to the Sex Pistols Indispensable purchase for the dedicated follower of music and art The seventies are often regarded as a mean, dark and turbulent decade, full of discontent and pessimism. The album covers of the burgeoning hard rock, progressive rock, pop and punk scenes that dominated the decade mirrored this social and cultural dystopia effectively, and accurately, capturing the tone of the music as well as the world at large. Over the decade it became clear that the 1970s were a hotbed of experimental, unique and mind-expanding design – perfectly mirroring the progressive music of the time as well as the technology of music recording and photography and being an expansive step away from the 1960s optimism. Classic Album Covers of the 1970s is an essential collection of over 200 of the greatest album covers produced during that dark decade. From the Grateful Dead, Roxy Music and David Bowie, to Patti Smith, The Ramones and the Sex Pistols, this volume will prove indispensable to all those interested in the history of album cover graphics and design, and to those whose memories of the seventies are stirred by the record covers of that period.

100 Best Album Covers

100 Best Album Covers
Author: Storm Thorgerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1999
Genre: Rock music
ISBN: 9780751307832

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Focuses on the stories behind 100 of the most memorable album covers in the history of rock and roll music, tracing the history of rock music and culture from Elvis to Blur. The collection has been personally selected by Storm Thorgerson, known for his work on Pink Floyd album covers.

Cover Story

Cover Story
Author: Wax Poetics
Publisher: Wax Poetics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Popular music
ISBN: 9781576875094

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The second book by the esteemed journal Wax Poetics is a vivid exploration of an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3s and digital downloading. Records possess a visual as well as an aural capacity for storytelling. The record cover - eye candy for the music lover - speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itself.