Roger Dean (1) (1944–)

This is a good compilation of album art up to the mid-70s, but there was so much good stuff that came after...

...but you can't fault the book for that.

I guess I would have liked more single-image pages, highlighting some of the absolutely incredible artwork on display, much of which ended up as a single tile of nine or twelve (shrinking the image to a couple of inches at best). Yes, it was illustrative of how similar some of the covers were, but still...

The joy of album art is the SIZE of show more the albums. So, the art was good, but the layout was less so. show less

Basically a gorgeous accounting of what Martyn and Roger Dean had been up to between 1975 and 1985. It was a lot.

There's showcases for book and album covers, architectural and stage designs...a little bit of everything. However, the standouts...and one I'd have loved to have seen an entire book devoted to, was the artwork for Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album (and proposed companion book).

Beautiful.

Displaying album covers mostly from the 50s thru the 70s, this is a fantastic book. History of their original function as simple protective sleeves to creating a new image vocabulary (faces) for the artists themselves as the production evolved with new technology. Large format book which is a goldmine for record buyers from years back. Vinyl is not mentioned in the book but vinyl is now being sold again at bookstores. Pages of album covers which are recognizable for the most part show more instantaneously. show less

The "story" was...well, it was there.

But the art? Gorgeous.