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Coverscaping

Discovering Album Aesthetics

Asbj¿rn Gr¿nstad ¿yvind Vagnes

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English
Museum Tusculanum Press
09 December 2010
Coverscaping focuses on the semiotics, poetics, and rhetoric of album covers. Working from the assumption that record sleeves may represent a visual genre in its own right, the essays engage in various ways with what one might call the pictorial component of recorded music. The contributors run the whole gamut from close readings of individual covers to more theoretical or philosophical explorations of the aesthetic nature and artistic value of album covers. Coverscaping aims to carve out an analytical space from which to reappraise the ever mutable relation between the visual and the auditory, thus contributing to a keener appreciation of the challenges which define the art and craft of the genre.

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Imprint:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Country of Publication:   Denmark
Dimensions:   Height: 22mm,  Width: 22mm,  Spine: 1mm
Weight:   680g
ISBN:   9788763507745
ISBN 10:   8763507749
Pages:   209
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Øyvind Vågnes is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of Visual Culture at the University of Bergen.

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