Records and Covers by Artists
Yay. This is a bit of a fun. A whole catalogue of record covers and records (and a few CDs and cassettes as well) made by "artists".
The first problem being that the images are too small.
But its full of top scholarship, like this sleeve Salvador Dali did for onetime jazz journalist Jackie Gleason.
There's quite alot of this sort of thing. Monochromatic art gallery edition artwork. But Hermann does belong in here rightfully doesn't he!
But then it veers towards this stuff. I mean, Phillip Corner is a Minimalist musician, but does that necessarily make him an artist? And Joey Ramone wasn't?
And this, I mean, lovely cover and groovy band, but what on grounds does this merit inclusion?
I've never seen this one before! There are hundreds of moments when I thought Schraenen was going to miss something and he didn't. An impressive proportion of these are included.
This Andy Warhol sleeve for Diana Ross is too delicious.
Raymond Pettibon gets a look in, but maybe not a whole load of other auteurs of the record sleeve....because at the end of the day that's what he is. But I quibble!
It was nice to see this by Scottish Musician and Artist Alan Davie, a show of whose I saw a long time ago on Sauciehall Street.