Cover meets Kunst

Jethro Tull – Ministrel in the Gallery (1975) / Joseph Nash – Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire (Architecture of the Middle Ages, 1838)

“Vito was in his fifties, but he had four-way sex with goddesses … He held these clay-sculpting classes on Laurel Avenue, teaching rich Beverly Hills dowagers how to sculpt. And that was the Byrds’ rehearsal room. Then Jim Dickson had the idea to put them on at Ciro’s, on the basis that all the freaks would show up and the Byrds would be their Beatles.”
Kim Fowley

Recruits for Vito and Carl’s dance troupe weren’t likely hard to come by, given that, according to Miles, Vito operated “the first crash pad in LA, an open house to countless runaways where everyone was welcome for a night, particularly young women.” By the mid 1960s, the group had expanded into a second communal location in addition to the basement studio at 303 Laurel Avenue: the ubiquitous Log Cabin. According to Jack Boulware, writing in Mojo magazine, architect Robert Byrd and his son built a new guesthouse (aka ‘the treehouse’) on the property in the early 1960s, and “The following year, a communal family of weirdos moved into the cabin and treehouse, centered around two underground hipsters named Vito Paulekas and Carl Franzoni, organizers of freeform dance troupes at clubs along the Sunset Strip.” By 1967, the dancers were splitting “their rent with staff from the hippie publication The Oracle. Retired journalist John Bilby recalls at least 36 people living and partying at the Log Cabin and treehouse, including the band Fraternity of Man. ‘Tim Leary was definitely there, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were there,’ Bilby says.”

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr98.html

Scheint derselbe Vito zu sein … es geht dann um minderjährige Mädchen, Missbrauch von Kleinstkindern, Charles Manson …

Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Paulekas

And it was this guy Vito Paulekas who who had a Sculpting Studio and he taught Sculpting I mean he appeared on the cover of Chico Hamilton Album in the 50s. He is just a long time archive and eventually Love – the original Love and the Byrds and I think even the Mothers all rehearsed at his studio.

http://fora.tv/fora/fora_transcript_pdf.php?cid=1193

Pure Prairie League – s/t (1972) / Norman Rockwell – Dreams Of Long Ago (1927)

This cover depicts an aging cowboy surrounded by relics of the past, indicative of the shifting tides of popular culture in America at the time. Victoria Crenson, in Norman Rockwell’s Portrait of America writes, „It certainly wasn’t hard to understand why rural America found country western music appealing. But perhaps urban America enjoyed it because the independence and freedom of life on the range afforded a nostalgic look at a young country before big city problems; when nature, rather than the stock market, determined the conditions of survival.“

The model for this Saturday Evening Post cover, James K. Van Brunt, was used extensively by Norman Rockwell, so much so that the Post editors started to complain about it. Van Brunt modeled for ten Post covers as well as countless other paintings used for advertisements. On this cover, he poses in front of a phonograph with an RCA record titled, ‚Dreams of Long Ago.‘ This record was recorded by Enrico Caruso, an Italian tenor whom Rockwell had met during his work at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1912. The lyrics include: „shadows are falling and I sit alone/My heart recalling Memories when you were my own.“ Van Brunt’s pose and expression in this piece suggest a wistful nostalgia for a time passed.

Quelle: Norman Rockwell Museum

Auch die anderen Alben-Cover der Band sind in einem ähnlichen Stil gehalten und zeigen den Cowboy in unterschiedlichen Situationen.

„Time Out“ gab’s hier ja schon (wobei ich den Künstler nicht kenne und – wie in manchen anderen Fällen – eine Auftragsarbeit nicht ausschliessen würde … vielleicht gibt’s in den Liner Notes Angaben dazu?), aber „Time Further Out“ gibt’s auch noch:

Dave Brubeck – Time Further Out (Cover: Joan Miró)

Dave Brubeck – Countdown: Time in Outer Space (Cover: Franz Kline)

Dave Brubeck – Time Changes (Cover: Sam Francis)

Ob es sich bei einem der Gemälde um eine Auftragsarbeit handelt, weiss ich natürlich auch wieder nicht, aber ich glaube eher nicht.

Wie es um das Cover des grossartigen „Jazz Impressions of Japan“ steht, kann ich auch nicht sagen, kann im Netz nicht einmal herausfinden, von wem das Bild stammt.

Mike & The Mechanics – Word Of Mouth

Alexander Rodtschenko – Lilya Brik

Das Plakat wirbt (roughly translated) für Bücher aller Sparten der Wissenschaft (кни́га = das Buch).