Paul Marechal

This landmark collection presents all of the record covers designed by Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1987, charting the Pop icon's lifelong engagement with music and casting a new light on his enormously diverse oeuvre. Count Basie, Tchaikovsky, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Diana Ross, John Lennon, and the Rolling Stones all had their music promoted by Andy Warhol's record covers. This stunning volume reproduces all of the album covers, front and back, that Warhol designed over four decades. Hundreds of additional contextual illustrations present liner notes and inside covers, related works by Warhol, and documentary images that trace the artist's visual sources. Author Paul Maréchal explores Warhol's creative process, his relationship with artists, and his fascination with all genres of music. The range of music represented through these record covers, from jazz to classical and rock to soul, reveals the breadth of Warhol's musical tastes and his extraordinary ability to combine his artistic vision with that of the musicians.… (meer)

Now this is exactly what I like to see out of art books - large format, simple and concise layout, quality materials and colour printing, and completely inclusive of a singular subject. In this case we are presented with the entire oeuvre of Andy Warhol’s LP cover artwork, a subject which is both much less familiar to the public than his prints and yet extremely recognizable in certain cases such as the banana cover for the Velvet Underground’s first album. Jazz and classical music aren’t really my thing, so I’m not familiar or particularly fond of Warhol’s penchant for designing these LP covers, but the fact that this book simply collects every LP cover rather than focusing on different types (and most books would likely focus on either the jazz/classical covers or the rock&roll/popular covers) does much towards its success as a collection of material.… (meer)