Cover art

Cover art can include various things such as logos, symbols, images, colors, or anything that represents what is being sold or advertised.

Some album art may cause controversy because of nudity (for example, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music No.

[14] Numerous artists have become noted for their book cover art, including Richard M. Powers and Chip Kidd.

In one of the most recognizable book covers in American literature, two sad female eyes (and bright red lips) adrift in the deep blue of a night sky, hover ominously above a skyline that glows like a carnival.

Evocative of sorrow and excess, the haunting image has become so inextricably linked to The Great Gatsby that it still adorns the cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book 88 years after its debut.

With the release of a big Hollywood movie, however, some printings of the book have abandoned the classic cover in favor of one that ties in more closely with the film.

Famous artists like Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and Juan Miró contributed covers to Vogue in the 1940s.

[21] Today, the word tabloid is used as a derogatory descriptor of a style of journalism, rather than its original intent as an indicator of half-broadsheet size.

This tends to cloud the fact that the great tabloids were skilfully produced amalgams of human interest stories told with punchy brevity, a clarity drawn from the choice of simple but effective words and often with a dose of wit.

That's when Benjamin Day and James Gordon Bennett Sr., the respective publishers of The Sun and the New York Herald, launched what became known as the penny press (whose papers sold for one cent apiece).

Other prolific artists included Albert Wilfred Barbelle, André C. De Takacs,[30] and Gene Buck.