Phonographics : contemporary album cover art & design /
By 1967, phonograph records had become a booming, billion-dollar-a-year business. The predominantly Rock 'N' Roll - oriented audience, like the musicians themselves, shared newly heightened musical, aesthetic and graphic sensibilities. An incredible array of adventurous and imaginative art...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Collier Books,
1977.
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| Summary: | By 1967, phonograph records had become a booming, billion-dollar-a-year business. The predominantly Rock 'N' Roll - oriented audience, like the musicians themselves, shared newly heightened musical, aesthetic and graphic sensibilities. An incredible array of adventurous and imaginative art directors, talented artists, and innovative, sophisticated techniques came together to capture the concepts of the sounds in the packaging of new albums and artists. What followed was the evolution and revolution of album cover art - Phonographics! Phonographics is a representative collection of the best work from the last decade. One hundred and fifty-eight full-color reproductions illustrate the incredible range and excitement of this burgeoning art form. All the milestones are here: the Beatles, Stones, Jefferson Starship and Grateful Dead album covers; the brilliant gimmicks like the J. Geils Band Hotline phone and the unwrapped Hersheybar concept created for Chicago; the pop parody of Little Richard by David Willardson, as well as the portrait of Paul Anka by acknowledged pop art Old Master Andy Warhol. Tomorrow it will be analyzed in art history classes; today it lives. Live with it - Phonographics - an extraordinary feast for the eyes, the portrait of an era, the sight of the sounds. -- from back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 137 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 0020001002 9780020001003 |