Art Record Covers

ISBN-13: 9783836540292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 448 str.

Francesco Spampinato

Opis

Sound art
An unprecedented collection of artists' record covers from the 1950s to today

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 Rotereliefs, 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' 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 synecdoche skull for The Hours, and a skewered Salvador Dali 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.

Text in English, French, and German

Recenzje

"Feiert die Alben und Coverkunst, in die wir seit Dekaden vernarrt sind."

O autorze

Spampinato, Francesco
Francesco Spampinato, Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller mit den Schwerpunkten Gegenwartskunst und Bildwissenschaft, promoviert momentan an der Universität Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. In seinen Vorlesungen beschäftigt er sich mit Kunst, Design und Medien. Von 2011 bis 2015 war er außerordentlicher Professor für zeitgenössische Kunst und deren kritische Betrachtung sowie für Performancekunst an der Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA. In 2015 verfasste er Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design (Princeton Architectural Press) sowie Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists (Onomatopee). Wiedemann, Julius
Julius Wiedemann studierte Grafikdesign und Marketing und arbeitete in Tokio als Kunstredakteur für digitale Medien und Designmagazine. Zu seinen TASCHEN-Titeln zählen Illustration Now!, Logo Design, Jazz Covers und Information Graphics.