Cover art
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Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an
The art has a primarily commercial function, for instance to promote the product it is displayed on, but can also have an aesthetic function, and may be artistically connected to the product, such as with art by the creator of the product.[2][3]
Album cover art
Album cover art is artwork created for a music album. Notable album cover art includes Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,[4][5] the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road and their self-titled "White Album", among others. Albums can have cover art created by the musician, as with Joni Mitchell's Clouds,[6] or by an associated musician, such as Bob Dylan's artwork for the cover of Music from Big Pink, by the Band, Dylan's backup band's first album.
Artists known for their album cover art include Alex Steinweiss, an early pioneer in album cover art, Roger Dean, and the Hipgnosis studio. Some album art may cause controversy because of nudity (for example, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins), offending churches, trademark or others.[7] There have been numerous books documenting album cover art, particularly rock and jazz album covers.[8][9][10] Steinweiss was an art director and graphic designer who brought custom artwork to record album covers and invented the first packaging for long-playing records.[7]
Joanne Gair's early album artwork such as David Lee Roth's 1986 Eat 'Em and Smile album cover helped launch her career.[11]
Book cover
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Book cover art has had books written on the subject.[citation needed] Numerous artists have become noted for their book cover art, including Richard M. Powers and Chip Kidd. In one of the most recognizable book covers in American literature, two sad female eyes (and bright red lips) adrift in the deep blue of a night sky, hover ominously above a skyline that glows like a carnival. Evocative of sorrow and excess, the haunting image has become so inextricably linked to The Great Gatsby that it still adorns the cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book 88 years after its debut. The iconic cover art was created by Spanish artist Francis Cugat. With the release of a big Hollywood movie, however, some printings of the book have abandoned the classic cover in favor of one that ties in more closely with the film.[12][13]
Magazine cover
Magazine cover artists include
Tabloid cover
Today, the word
Good cover art can lead readers to this fact; the New York Herald, for example, offers some examples of tabloid cover art.[22][23] So too does the News & Review, a free weekly published in Nevada and California.[24] The tabloid has thrived since the 1970s, and uses cartoonish cover art.[25] Tabloids have a modern role to play, and along with good cover art (and new ideas) they fill a niche.[26]
Popular music scores (early 20th century)
Gallery
Books
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Ivory book cover with scenes from the life of Christ, c. 800 AD
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Uezdnoe, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1916
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The Real Mother Goose, Blanche Fisher Wright, illustrator, 1916
Newspapers, magazines, comic books
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, September 8, 1892
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Billboard's tenth anniversary edition, 1904
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Vanity Fair, June 1914
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Skater with scarf, illustrated by Ethel Caroline Rundquist, Vanity Fair, January 1916
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The Silver Sheet, a studio publication promoting Thomas Ince Productions Bell Boy 13, E. H. Pfeiffer, illustrator, January 1923
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Pulp magazineSpider, vol. 2, no. 3, April 1934
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Amazing Man Comics no. 22, illustrated by Paul Gustavson, May 1941
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LIFE magazine, official U.S. Army photo, June 19, 1944
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Mister Mystery #1, Key Publications, July–August 1953
Sheet music, recorded music
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Sheet music for theGotham-Attucks, publisher, 1908
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"My Favorite Rag" by James White, illustration by Grim Natwick (one of his earliest published works), 1915
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Cover for The Beatles' White Album, 1968
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Cover for Led Zeppelin's promotional single "Stairway to Heaven", 1971
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Cover for King Crimson's album Three of a Perfect Pair, 1984
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Cover for Beyoncé's eponymous album, 2013
See also
- Book cover
- Dust jacket
- History of graphic design
- List of controversial album art
- Video game packaging
References
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- ^ TED (Mar 31, 2009). "Jacek Utko: Can design save the newspaper?". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-11-18.
- ^ Milton, Jamie (2017-11-20). "The best album artwork of the 21st Century so far". NME. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ Billboard Staff (March 16, 2022). "The 50 Greatest Album Covers of All Time". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ^ "Clouds". Joni Mitchell. Les Irvin. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ a b Heller, Steven, "Alex Steinweiss, Originator of Artistic Album Covers, Dies at 94," The New York Times, July 19, 2011
- ^ "The Blues: Album Cover Art", Chronicle Books, 1996
- ^ 1000 Record Covers, Michael Ochs, Taschen Publications, 2005
- OCLC 958205262.
- ISBN 0-7893-1509-2., intro
- ^ Stamp, Jimmy (May 14, 2013). "When F. Scott Fitzgerald Judged Gatsby By Its Cover". Smithsonian Magazine.
- ^ The Great Gatsby (2013 film)[circular reference]
- ^ "Norman Rockewell Biography". The Saturday Evening Post.
Forty-seven years later, Rockwell's work had appeared 322 times on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post — the last, a portrait of John F. Kennedy, appeared in 1963, a week after the president's assassination.
- ^ "Norman Rockwell's Wartime Covers" (Press release). Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia. Archived from the original on March 9, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008.
- ^ "Wheeler: In the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art". Joe DiMaggio Photography. July 21, 2016.
- ^ "Dennis Wheeler". Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ Maria Reidelbach. Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine (New York: Little Brown & Company, 1992).
- ^ Day, Mark. (2008, August 21). "For a brighter future, tabloids could look to the past." The Australian, p. 38.
- ^ McLaren, Leah. (2001, August 11). "Admit it: Tabloid culture is what we are" The Globe and Mail, p. L3.
- ^ a b Wynne-Jones, Ros. (2011, July 28). "They've still got news for us." Independent Extra, p. 2.
- ^ C. DeForest Switzer (August 11, 2017). "Cover-Art Credentials". Siouxland Observer.
- ^ "new york Herald cover art". Google.
- ^ "News & Review". 26 March 2020.
- ^ "Chico Issue Archive". Chico News & Review Archives.
- ^ Berlin, Jess S. (2006, November 8). "Cyber tabloid will cover all the news that's virtually true." The Guardian, p. 20.
- ^ "André De Takacs" by Bill Edwards (né William G. Motley; born 1959), ragpiano
.com Website administrator: Bill Edwards (no date); Contributors: Andrea Ellis and Keith Emmons (retrieved February 21, 2020) - ^ "Edward H. Pfeiffer" by Bill Edwards (né William G. Motley; born 1959), ragpiano
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