Tuesday 27 April 2010

‘Woefully Underconceptualised’: Rick McGrath on J.G. Ballard’s Cover Art


'Venus Smiles’: one of five Ballardian ‘ads’ published in Ambit magazine (designer: J.G. Ballard; Ambit, #46, Winter 1970/71)
The incomparable Dali; a very successful union (artist: Salvador Dali; Jonathan Cape, London, 1970)

LEFT: A Mike Foreman illustration for Doubleday’s edition of The Atrocity Exhibition (Doubleday, NY, 1970)
RIGHT: A Phoebe Gloeckner illustration for the RE/Search reprint (RE/Search, San Francisco, 1990)

From the fevered imagination of exilestreet at 22:36

2 comments:

  1. Rick McGrath27 April 2010 at 23:44

    Thanks for the plug! Enjoy my rant!

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  2. exilestreet28 April 2010 at 00:05

    2Rick/
    Thanx I really did enjoy yr rant...it has always struck me how bad a lot of covers were for authors such as WSB & Ballard. It was as you say the 'spectre of sci-fi' was forever going to haunt them!
    Regards/

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