Rock Covers
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Product Description
Rock CoversAlbum art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks—the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular culture.
Paying tribute to this art form, Rock Covers brings you a compilation of more than 750 remarkable album covers, from legendary to rare record releases. Artists as varied as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Iron Maiden, and Sonic Youth are gathered together in celebration of the cover art that defined their albums and their cult status. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the art director, photographer or illustrator, year, label, and more, while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band, an artist, or the music genre, are highlighted with short descriptions.
This far-reaching catalog of visualized rock is contextualized with insider interviews with five professionals who shaped the history of rock, and by top-10 record lists from ten leading rock collectors.Rock CoversRobbie Busch, Jonathan Kirby, Julius Wiedemann
Hardcover, 11.5 x 11.5 in., 552 pages
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German“…a full anthology of familiar – and wonderfully obscure – rock albums.”— NYLON Magazine, New York“…a lovingly and illuminatingly annotated journey throughout decades’ worth of striking, historical album sleeves.”— Metal Hammer, London“…an all-visual affair and a very proper gift for anyone who loves music and remembers the physicality of vinyl records.”— Selectism.com, New York -
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Product Details
- Variant: Default Title
- Product Type: Book
- Brand: TASCHEN
- Collection: Home Furnishings