[HN Gopher] The artist whose book covers distilled the 1980s
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       The artist whose book covers distilled the 1980s
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2023-02-02 12:45 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
        
       | pavlov wrote:
       | This blog post is linked from the New Yorker article and has a
       | lot of pictures of the book covers, as well as interviews with
       | the writers and artists:
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       | https://talkingcovers.com/2012/09/12/vintage-contemporaries/
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       | The "Ransom" cover is really wonderful.
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       | Overall this series is a triumph of art direction. The various
       | cover paintings were made by different artists, but they blend
       | into a unified series that reflects the sensibility of the
       | original designer -- "Magritte in Memphis, California" would be
       | my summary of the associations.
        
       | Flatcircle wrote:
       | Incredible art
        
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       | emmelaich wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Louie
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | Heh. Just got around to reading this, this morning. It actually
       | gave me some memories, of those days.
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       | When I was a young man, I wanted to be a SciFi book cover artist.
       | I wasn't half bad, but I wasn't a master, either.
       | 
       | I figured out that even a mediocre programmer could do better
       | than even a really well-known commercial artist (which I was not
       | really assured of).
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       | Here's a couple of examples of the kind of stuff I was doing in
       | the 1980s:
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       | https://littlegreenviper.com/art/Cavalier.png
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       | https://littlegreenviper.com/art/Sentinels.png
        
         | actionfromafar wrote:
         | Makes me want to play some 8-bit games.
        
         | samlu wrote:
         | These are simply amazing.
        
           | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
           | Been a loooong time, since I did those. I maintain my design
           | aesthetic and visual articulation, but I'd need to get back
           | into practice, to do that stuff again.
        
         | kinow wrote:
         | These are really awesome!
        
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       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | I suspect she also did the art for the cover of "Days Between
       | Stations" (which I read decades ago).
       | 
       | https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads....
        
         | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
         | Looks like that was a 1986 version, which would have been in
         | her heyday, so I suspect you're right.
         | 
         |  _UPDATE: That link that another commenter posted, has
         | it:https://talkingcovers.com/2012/09/12/vintage-
         | contemporaries/_
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/X6EeS
        
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