Album Cover Album, Volume 3 book by David Howells, Roger Dean
Language: English
Published by Guild Publishing, 1984
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United KingdomWest Cove UK
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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Protective cover fitted. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The Album Cover Album was the first book to collect and document the pictorial history of the record sleeve, from 1939 to its publication in 1977-by which date everything had changed with the breakthrough of "New Wave". Next came Album Cover Album 2 in 1982, telling the story of those fertile five years. In the next two years the record industry has moved on at an undreamt-of pace. As before, this selection of art is international, but we've chosen to focus on British work in this introduction, for the most dramatic development has been the new worldwide passion for British pop and rock. Unlike the climate of 1982, in 1984 British artists have at any one time occupied in excess of 35% of the U.S. charts the largest market for recorded music in the world. Riffling through record racks, or through the pages of this book, it's immediately apparent what a stimulus this has been for British designers, illustrators and photographers. So rather than analyse the sleeve art itself, this time we've ch.…
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- Title
- Album Cover Album, Volume 3 book by David Howells, Roger Dean
- Author
- David Howells, Roger Dean
- Publisher
- Guild Publishing
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312017073
- ISBN 13
- 9780312017071
- Seller catalogs
- All Things Art, Graphic Arts and Decorative Arts
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About the Author
Roger Dean is internationally acclaimed as an artist and designer whose evocative and visionary images created a new genre. Made popular through the medium of album covers and posters, his work has sold in excess of 100 million copies. Roger became widely known in the 1970s for his album cover designs for Yes—including the classic logo now in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London—and a poll of Rolling Stone readers selected five of his designs in the top twenty best album covers of all time.
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