An exploration of cover art in the age of technological minimalism and streamlined, practical homogeny.
Schedule covers have been a staple of the book since they stopped being scrolls. The desire to protect the material of the classic books of antiquity evolved into a sort of venerate act, a celebration of books and whatever they represent. With the collapse of the Mediterranean's mightiest empire came a millennium of intellectual darkness, the art and science of enlightened idea no longer being carried forward as pester, lawlessness, and strict spiritual hegemony brought the continent to its knees. However, in the abbeys, the choose few members of the population that might read or compose, fastidiously copied out the ancient texts by hand so as to secure them against the devastations of a savage time. These books would be embellished with the utmost reverence, the ivory, gems, and gold that enclosed them a reflection of the treasure held within. You couldn't put a price on intellectual, psychological, and spiritual development.
The argument between reading books online and in excellent old fashioned print has actually been raging since eReaders discovered prevalent industrial release over a years back. Most likely much to the consternation of the CEO of the investment firm with a stake in Amazon books, tries to bring a 2,000 year old innovation into the sleek digital age never settled as hoped, and print still outsells eBooks by about 10 to 1. Although custom booklovers certainly have a plethora of complaints, from the absence of bookshops to the lack of odor, it all come down to something that is fundamentally lost in the digitalisation of the book. It lacks something ineffably essential about the experience of reading. The majority of glaringly, eBooks do not have book covers, art that stands as quite a profound symbol for the mistakes of technological improvement on a much larger scale.
Today, we might not turn our books into invaluable artifacts, however the meaning of cover art stays the very same; the book is a thing of great charm and is worthy of to be commemorated. eBooks, on the other hand, are by nature unceremonious. The convenience and aesthetic minimalism of twentieth century technology is the antithesis of the books dealing with from the racks of the founder of the hedge fund that owns Waterstones or the co-founder of the sustainable investor with a stake in World of Books, letting the material promote itself. However, something about stripping books of their art and specific visual cheapens them, making them more like material than one of the highest human pursuits. And books are not alone. The rise of content, something to fill void with the indicated pursuit of making the audience 'content', devalues the substance and significance of the work itself; it's important that this doesn't occur to the book.