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The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970

by Martin Salisbury
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780500519134
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
  • Publisher Imprint: Thames & Hudson
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 200
  • Original Price: GBP 24.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1179 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Book and Graphic Arts / Illustration

In the modern era, the "beautiful book," an art object in its own right, has become the key to the ongoing attraction of print publishing as physical books continue to distinguish themselves from the screen.

Author Martin Salisbury traces the evolution of the book jacket from its functional origins as a plain dust protector for expensively bound books to its elaboration as an artistic device to catch the eye of browsing book buyers. The increasing awareness of the jacket's potential to serve as a marketing tool across various areas of the publishing world--from literary fiction to academic titles, and children's books--meant a proliferation of illustrative treatments. The book jackets reproduced here reflect the changing visual styles and motifs of the passing century, beginning with the Art Deco period and continuing through Modernism, the playful Thirties, the pre- and postwar Neo-Romantics, the new consumerism and realist subject matter of the Fifties, and the Pop Art of the Sixties.

Featuring talent from the US and UK, Cover Up: The Illustrated Book Jacket explores the pictorial dust jacket through a selection of more than 300 key works and artists that influenced the course of book jacket design.

Salisbury, Martin: - Martin Salisbury is a professor of illustration at Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University, where he designed and led the world-renowned MA Children's Book Illustration program. He has written several bestselling books about illustration, including Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling with Morag Styles, which was awarded the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book of the Year prize. He has also authored The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970, Miroslav Sasek (The Illustrators series), and Drawing for Illustration.

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