ATD paperback cover

[Dave Monroe]

Just picked up the US pbk ed of AtD ...

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143112563,00.html

In the nick of time, as my cloth ed has long since fallen apart (have
another tucked away for safekeeping), I've been juggling a
couple/three library copies @ various locations.  Anyway, recall the
painting on the cover ...

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/covers/all/3/6/9780143112563H.jpg

Tullio Crali, Nose-diving on the City, 1939, oil on canvas

http://www.simultaneita.net/tulliocrali.html

http://www.mart.trento.it/context_mostre_mondo.jsp?ID_LINK=346&area=62&page=4

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0709&msg=121603

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0709&msg=121610

Anyway, a few more links providing a little more info ...

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio_Crali

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1383351,00.html

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART25567.html

http://www.comune.udine.it/opencms/opencms/release/ComuneUdine/cittavicina/arte/museale/gamud/biografie/canciani-crali/crali.html

The painting seems to have been making the rounds of late, which may
have been how it came to the book's designer's, or even Pynchon's,
attention.  Anything perhaps relevant to be gleaned from the Italian
lge sites?  Any comments on the use of a Bltz-eye-view painting by a
fascist sympathizer?  On the change in cover design at all?  Save the
transparent dust jacket, M&D was by and large left as is, so ...