For the record...

Before music lived in our pockets, the album cover was part of the experience. You put on a record, held the sleeve in your hands, studied the artwork, read the liner notes. And sometimes, the person creating what you saw was every bit as interesting as the person creating what you heard.

Art Record Covers brings together more than 500 album covers created by some of the most influential artists of the past several decades, tracing the ongoing conversation between visual art and music.

Andy Warhol. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Keith Haring. Yayoi Kusama. Roy Lichtenstein. Banksy. Damien Hirst. Barbara Kruger. Raymond Pettibon. And that's only where the record collection begins.

Part art history, part music history, and part very excellent excuse to spend an afternoon looking at album covers, this is exactly the kind of book we want in the Poppy Lane Library: one that makes you want to put on a record, look a little closer, and keep turning pages.

Details

• Hardcover
• 448 pages
  
• 11.5" × 11.5"
  
• Weight: 8.49 lb
  
• More than 500 record covers
  
• Introduction in English, French, and German; remaining text and captions in English
  
• Written by Francesco Spampinato
  
• Edited by Julius Wiedemann
  
• Published by TASCHEN
  
• ISBN 978-3-8365-4029-2