Recognitions cover art for penguin edition 1993 "the mellow pad"

[rich]

i think Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins would've made a better cover--think
there was such a cover in the UK?

i'm not sure Gaddis liked abstract art all that much. personally I
don't like the abstract art cover in any case

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Nice - thanks Ed!  It will be interesting to see if there's some
> apparent "tonal" connection between the painting and the novel.
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> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Mellow Pad (turns out this painting is derivative from painter's
>> "original")
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>> The starting point for this lively patterned abstraction was an
>> earlier canvas by Stuart Davis entitled House and Street, 1931.
>> Treating each subsequent version as a riff on a jazz theme,
>> Davis moved further and further away from his original composition
>> to establish independent, rhythmic color patterns that retained only
>> a few direct visual cues to the original composition. Davis theorized that
>> abstract compositions could communicate to the viewer something of the
>> subject from which they were derived. This composition embodies the
>> “mellow pad”—jazz lingo for the “cool” place to be. Jazz rhythms were
>> a potent inspiration for Davis, and their presence added a distinctly
>> American component to his abstractions.
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>> ed
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