{"product_id":"art-record-covers-9783836540292","title":"Art Record Covers","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the dawn of modernism, \u003cstrong\u003evisual and music production\u003c\/strong\u003e have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto \u003cem\u003eL'Arte dei Rumori \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Noise\u003c\/em\u003e) to Marcel Duchamp's 1925 double-sided discs \u003cem\u003eRotoreliefs\u003c\/em\u003e, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Francesco Spampinato's \u003cstrong\u003eunique anthology of artists' record covers\u003c\/strong\u003e, we discover the rhythm of this\u003cstrong\u003e particular cultural history\u003c\/strong\u003e. The book presents 500 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how \u003cstrong\u003emodernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, \u003c\/strong\u003eand various forms of \u003cstrong\u003econtemporary art \u003c\/strong\u003epractice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with \u003cstrong\u003edefining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Along the way, we find \u003cstrong\u003eJean-Michel Basquiat\u003c\/strong\u003e's urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, \u003cstrong\u003eBanksy\u003c\/strong\u003e's stenciled graffiti for Blur, \u003cstrong\u003eDamien Hirst\u003c\/strong\u003e's symbolic skull for the Hours, and a skewered \u003cstrong\u003eSalvador Dalí\u003c\/strong\u003e butterfly on Jackie Gleason's \u003cem\u003eLonesome Echo\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWiedemann, Julius:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpampinato, Francesco:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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 the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. From 2011 to 2015, he was an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and since 2019 he is 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.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50671118287122,"sku":"9783836540292","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce12dd9e-49c4-4696-a415-a685fbef107a.jpg?v=1733796495","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/art-record-covers-9783836540292","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}