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Brought to Book: Things Found in Secondhand Books and What They May Reveal About Their Previous Owners #3
Found Art Found Ephemera Willy Vlautin
No 3 in a series showcasing ephemera found between the pages of secondhand books – Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
Brought to Book: Things Found in Secondhand Books and What They May Reveal About Their Previous Owners #2
Ephemera Found Art Found Poetry Marginalia Mysticism Sri Madhava Ashish
No 2 in a series showcasing ephemera found between the pages of secondhand books – Man, Son of Man by Sri Madhava Ashish
Exploring the Crash Aesthetic: The Cover Art of JG Ballard’s Notorious Novel
Book Cover Art Crash Cult Fiction Graphic Design JG Ballard Rick Poynor Visual Culture
In his 2007 essay, ‘Collapsing Bulkheads’, design critic Rick Poynor argues that in terms of book cover design, JG Ballard’s darkly dystopian 1973 novel, Crash, ‘has been peculiarly resistant to attempts to summarise it with a single image’. For him, the efforts of successive designers and illustrators down the years, such as Chris Foss, James Marsh, Carin Goldberg and others, have failed to fully encapsulate the true ‘delirium’ of the author’s ‘psychopathic hymn’ to the erotic potential of the automobile accident. Instead, Poynor points to Michael Ian Kaye and Melissa Hayden’s montage approach for the cover of the 1994 Noonday...