Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art and Design, by Edward Gorey
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The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey (American, 1925 2000) got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and later Random House. Today, his prodigious output of hundreds of dust jackets and paperback covers evidences his distinctive flair for design and his extraordinary ability to portray the essence of the books that came his way. Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design features a broad selection of his work, created from 1953 to 2000.
In his essay, Steven Heller offers an insightful overview of Gorey's book cover art and design. He writes, "Successful cover design requires the expertise of an artist, typographer, poster designer, and logo maker. Many book design specialists were incapable of designing a cover or jacket with the same Gorey aplomb, even if they tried."
Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art and Design, by Edward Gorey- Amazon Sales Rank: #613167 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.60" h x .80" w x 8.60" l, 2.05 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 128 pages
From the Inside Flap The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and later Random House. Today, his prodigious output of hundreds of dust jackets and paperback covers evidences his distinctive flair for design and his extraordinary ability to portray the essence of the books that came his way. Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design features a broad selection of his work, created from 1953 to 2000. In his essay, Steven Heller offers an insightful overview of Gorey's book cover art and design. He writes, "Successful cover design requires the expertise of an artist, typographer, poster designer, and logo maker. Many book design specialists were incapable of designing a cover or jacket with the same Gorey aplomb, even if they tried."
About the Author Steven Helleris co-chair of the MFA Design: Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. His many previous books includeTypographic Universe, New Modernist Type, and Scripts.Edward Gorey (1925 2000) is famous for the bounty of books he wrote
and illustrated, filling more than one hundred works with his unique
humor and distinctly crosshatched characters.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Necessary to get the full brilliance of Edward Gorey's talent By Lucas Goldstein Anyone who has read my reviews before on the mastery of Edward Gorey knows my enduring affection for his work, but now Pomegranate has published a beautifully rendered new book showcasing Gorey's extensive artwork beyond that of his own books called Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design.This new volume fills in a gap that many people outside of his core group of fans have never known about. So many know Gorey from his famous works, like his Amphigorey series, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, or The Doubtful Guest. Yet before he ever set his well-loved cross-hatch style of pen and ink on any of those books, he worked as a staff artist for Looking Glass Library (a Random House company), a freelance illustrator, and an art director at Bobbs-Merrill. In that time period he drew, imagined, and reimagined over 200 book covers, displaying incredible images never to be found in his own books.The style was always distinctly his own, but the covers veered far and wide from the iconic tall, posh people who inhabit many of his stories. Some covers, like one for The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry - Edited by Perry Miller (1956), is a stark, open space leaving as much of an impression by what he left out than what he put in.Or there is The Garden to the Sea by Philip Toynbee (1954) where Gorey creates something more reminiscent of Saul Bass' iconic movie posters. But there are plenty that are immediately recognizable for the Gorey aficionado, like You read to me, I'll read to you by John Ciardi (1962).His art was so wide spread and so influential that when he passed in 2000, the New York Times gave him the rare honor of placing his obituary on the front page. He is also remembered through the official creation of a Gorey font, which is used on the actual cover to this book. Some revered his work so much, like Diana Klemin, the Art Director at Anchor Books from 1953 to 1987, who was quoted in an interview saying, "He could have done the Sistine Chapel."Gorey was voracious, both in his output of artwork and his ingest of the written word. When he passed his personal library counted over twenty-five thousand books. His knowledge of art and the world in which it was created was expansive and he felt no qualms about borrowing or straight lifting images or inspirations to help cement the image needed for his current project. yet his talent and vision were never questioned and he to this day reigns as one of the most impressive and impactful artists, at the very least to the author of this review.As to the book, Pomegranate has built a reputation for beautiful, elegant, and eye-catching productions. Corey's covers are reproduced with fantastic color and detail. The essay in the beginning of the book from Steven Heller gives the perfect amount of depth to the works, while balancing the biography of the man himself.Fans of Edward Gorey will need, absolutely need, this book in their collection. My only cautionary message it may increase the size of your book collection as you begin to hunt for every one of these covers yourself.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. What's Your Favorite Cover Story? By G.A. Emil No matter how hard I try, I am unable to choose just one favorite Edward Gorey (The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Hapless Child, The Evil Garden, etc.) book cover. Gorey authored about 100 of his own works, but he also squeezed in well over 200 cover designs, and they're just as delicious to look at. Over the years, over time, I thought I'd be able to narrow it down, using wisdom and hindsight, to maybe two or three favorites. Or five, or ten. Alas.So I hoped Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art and Design would somehow expose the Gorey-est of Gorey covers, that it combine thoughtful analysis and consensus among experts, maybe even Gorey himself, to ferret out 'The One', or Ones. Well, not quite. But book designer Steven Heller, with the help of Doubleday Anchor co-worker C. Joerns and A. Brown of Gotham Book Mart, seems to have insight into why so many of us collect these wonderful literary art pieces, and there's not one that will rise above the rest, that nearly each design is as appealing as the next, for all the right reasons.Gorey was a master of combining both the illustrative arts with the literary arts, the visual in service to the intellectual. And for the many who chose to see the bound book as precious objects of desire, there is no parallel to holding a classic work, with cover created by Edward Gorey, in your hands.-- Glen E., Goreyography.com
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. GOREY COVERS By kip This is a most excellent collection of the cover illustration work of the great Edward Gorey. Most of the illustrations are full page and wonderfully reproduced. I bought this as an Xmas gift for a dear friend who is a Goreyphile, and she was immensely pleased with it. I may have to get a copy for myself as well.
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