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POWELL,AUBREY: : CLASSIC ALBUM COVERS OF THE 70s

UK.LIMPSFIELD,SURREY.PAPER TIGER/DRAGON'S WORLD LTD.,1994.

ISBN 1850281556.

UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with gilt colour lettering to front panel+spine/backstrip and white lettering to rear panel; with some shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - a couple of closed tears; one to spine/backstrip's front gutter's edge at foot of same and a slightly larger/longer closed tear (approx 1.1/2") towards front bottom corner on the lower edge.Both panels exhibit some scoring and indentations/impressions of varying degrees and depths - only some - not all - very lightly affecting the bds beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners.Some slight accidental corner creases to bottom corners of some of the book's last signatures,otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters and publisher's colophon to spine/backstrip and clean plain white eps - front free endpaper (ffe) has an accidental diagonal crease.UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-192pp [paginated] includes a foreword by Richard Evans,an author's introduction, 10 sections (1970 - 79) with profuse (200+) colour photographic illustrated classic album covers designs from each year,accompanied with worldwide historical news items each with a related b/w contemporary photograph throughout the book,author's afterword and his potted biography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table.Described hard but fairly and honestly - dw/dj is the main detractor! A collection of over 200 essential album covers of the decade.A visual journey ranging from psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti-design - from Pink Floyd to the Sex Pistols.Indispensable reading for the dedicated follower of album cover graphics and design. The seventies were a mean,gloomy,dark and turbulent decade.In the US there was Vietnam and Watergate; in Britain,the dreamy,swinging sixties utopianism was replaced by inflation,discontent and strikes.Add to this rocketing worldwide inflation caused by the soaring cost of oil,Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia, Baader-Meinhof terrorism in West Germany and there was little room for optimism. In the midst of this post-sixties,back-to-reality political and economic climate,the world of record cover design was not unaffected.Yet,through this bleakness,artists and designers produced images of startling intensity and originality. From the price-is-no-object philosophy of the supergroups,to the backstreet cut-and-paste techniques of punk iconographers,album covers continued to entertain,inform,repel and seduce, occasionally all at the same time.Who can look at The Mothers of Convention's 'Weasels Ripped My Flesh' without feeling repulsed yet thrilled at the brashness and vitality of the image? And what is the significance and coded meaning of all the activity in Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here'? Not much doubt about Andy Warhol's conception of the Stones' 'Sticky Fingers'. . . . 'CLASSIC ALBUM COVERS OF THE 70s' is an essential collection of over 200 of the very best album covers produced during tht dark decade.From the Grateful Dead,Roxy Music and David Bowie,to Patti Smith,The Ramones and the Sex Pistols,this volume will prove indispensable to all interested in the history of album cover graphics and design,and to those whose memories of the seventies are stirred by the record covers of the time. Richard Evans has been involved with the visual side of the music industry for more than 20 years.He has designed album covers for artists as diverse as Public Image Limited and Robert Plant.His association with The Who,which began in 1976 with a nude photo session with Keith Moon,has continued through to 1994 with the design of the box set The Who: Thirty Years of Maximum R&B. Aubrey 'Po' Powell founded the now highly acclaimed design company Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968 after graduating from the London School of Film Technique. Album cover design work undertaken includes Led Zeppelin,Paul McCartney,Pink Floyd,Bad Company, Genesis,Yes,Peter Gabriel,and 10cc to name but a few. In 1982 'Po' formed Green Back Films,making music videos for artists such as Paul Young,Robert Plant and Yes.In 1985 Aubrey began Aubrey Powell Productions and expanded into television commercials, documentaries and feature films. Aubrey Powell's most recent work (then 1994) includes directing the movie 'Cure Show' for The Cure' and the high definition Fuji television presentation of Paul McCartney's 'Soundcheck'.He also directed Paul McCartney's television documentary 'Moving On' in 1993 which was nominated for the Golden Rose of Montreaux award. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight - 1.75Kg unpackaged - and value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB+dw/j,1st edn.

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