Recent readings

I've been doing some more reading recently, so I thought I'd share what I've been reading to help display the idea of where I'm heading.

Firstly, I borrowed the book titled "Modernism" from the library to get a general idea of Modernism; though I already read about American Modernism, I felt that knowing the overall trend of Modernism globally could help put the work I was looking at into context.

Richard Weston – Modernism

ISBN (0-7148-4099-8) Phaidon Publishing

Secondly, I have the most plain covered book in history. I believe it's almost a perfect square, it hasn't any information on the cover other than the trade mark "Blue Note" blue. This book has a brief history on the designers and the company but mostly displays the covers of one of America's biggest labels, and quite certainly the biggest jazz label in the 1950's.

Graham Marsh – Blue Note: The Album Cover Art

ISBN (0-8118-0036-9) Chronicle Books

I've also been using Quest to get a range of readings, of which I'm slowly working my way through but below are the name of the extracts and books I'm reading through.

Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity, 2005
Chapter: The Late, Late Blues: Jazz Modernism

ISBN: 9780465015160

Creative Review; Oct2013, Vol. 33 Issue 10

Article: The record sleeve as an art form is dead

Modernist America: art, music, movies, and the globalization of American culture / Richard Pells

Yale University Press, 2011.