What do you intend to investigate:
- A variety of bluegrass album covers
- The themes behind the imagery
- The visual language of the covers
How theorists, writers, case studies and quotes triangulate (backbone):
- 'Attempts of young people today to shed their urban surroundings and get back to their more traditional surroundings'
- 'The early albums long out of print'
- 'Reaffirmed the traditional values associated with bluegrass music' Lonesome 'is to bluegrass music what blue is to the blues'
- 'It has been a professional and commercial music from its beginning'
- 'Bluegrass seems symbolic of responses to outside pressure'
- (Bluegrass: A History)
- 'Social existance'
- 'Permits his creatures to live again'
- (Paul Valery)
- 'Personal possession'
- 'Divested of its function and made relative to a subject'
- 'Envisaging a set or series of each item'
- (Jean Baudrilliard)
- 'The aura includes a sensory experience of distance between the reader and the work of art'
- 'The reproduced work of art is completely detached from the sphere of tradition. It loses the continuity of its presentation and appreciation'
- 'The work of art can be disconnected from its past and brought into new combinations by the reader'
- (Andrew Robinson)
- 'Record covers are often as much a part of the whole work as the songs'
- 'I'd pin them up in plastic sleeves, as works of art' (George Shaw)
- 'I'm proud of the records on my wall; its a way of managing the world of popular culture' (George Shaw)
- 'I bought records just because of how they looked' (Juergen Teller)
- 'The music and the images go totally hand in hand' (Juergen Teller)
- (The Art on your Sleeve)
What activities do I need to do (experiences/visits/materials):
- Need to decode/visually analyse a variety of different bluegrass album covers to determine they key visual information
- Collect photographs of my bluegrass band; ones of us performing and take some of rehearsing (details of the different instruments and musicians)
End product vision:
- Chose a few specific covers from different to reinterpret, modernise, bring back to life?
- Create an album cover for my bluegrass band using the old visual language? perhaps singles covers for a few songs (focus)?
- Created with fully analogue media? (collage, pen, paper cut, print, paint, texture)
- Final outcome = an album cover/ digital reproduction of the album cover?
Sketchbook:
- Sketch imagery of the Bean Train Gang performing and rehearsing
- Develop ways to visualise themes; alcohol, landscape, religion, death/depression, home, perverts/dark side
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