Art Record Covers by Francesco Spampinato Taschen 40th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Book

Art Record Covers by Francesco Spampinato Taschen 40th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Book

In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 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, 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.

ISBN-13: 9783836588164

Publisher: Taschen

Dimensions: 156 x 217 x 43.18mm

Cover: Hardback

Pages: 512

Colour: Mixed

Writer: Francesco Spampinato 

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