Art Sleeves: Album Covers by Artists

Art Sleeves is a time capsule of visual art and music culture as showcased through the most important record sleeves designed by visual artists and graphic designers over the last forty years. This carefully curated collection of chosen sleeves includes works with significant cultural impact, as well as collaborations that themselves created cultural fascination.

The eclectic list of collaborations between visual artists and musicians featured spans artistic and musical genres, as well as generations, including Ryan McGinley for Sigur Rós, Kara Walker for Arto Lindsay, Peter Saville for Joy Division, Barbara Kruger for Growing Up Skipper, Jeff Koons for Lady Gaga, Tauba Auerbach for Glasser, and Stanley Donwood for Radiohead, to name a few. From post-modernist paintings and minimalism to collage and photography, as well as New Wave, emo, pop, and punk, the chosen albums present a brilliant and rich visual and cultural history.

This inspiring volume celebrates this long creative tradition of visual artist and musician collaborations and, like a perfect album, will be treasured by art and music and record lovers alike.