The book cover is the protective cover used to tie the book page. Beyond the intimate differences between hardcovers and novels, there are alternatives and further additions, such as dust coats, ring bindings, and old shapes like the 19th century "paperboard" and traditional types of handbirth. The term "Bookcover" is often used for book cover images in library management software. This article deals with modern mechanically produced covers.
Video Book cover
History
Before the beginning of the nineteenth century, the book was hand-tied, in the case of a medieval plush text using materials such as gold, silver, and gems. For hundreds of years, bookmarks serve as a protective tool for expensive printed or handmade pages, and as decorative respect for their cultural authorities. In the 1820s, major changes began to occur in how a book could be covered, with a gradual introduction of techniques to bind mechanical books. Fabrics, and then paper, became the staple used when the book became very cheap - thanks to the introduction of mechanically-produced steam and paper-powered presses - which made their hands tied disproportionately to the cost of the book itself.
Not only are new types of books cheaper to produce, they can also be printed, using multi-colored lithography, and then, the halftone illustration process. Techniques borrowed from nineteenth-century artists gradually infiltrated the book industry, as well as the practice of graphic design professionals. The cover of a book becomes more than just a protection for a page, taking on the advertising function, and communicating information about the text within it.
Maps Book cover
Cover design
The Nouveau Arts and Crafts and Arts Movement at the turn of the 20th century led to a modern revival in the book cover design that soon began to infiltrate the massive book industry that developed through more progressive publishers in Europe, London and New York. Some of the first radical modern cover designs were produced in the Soviet Union during the 1920s by avant-gardists such as Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky. Another very influential early cover book designer is Aubrey Beardsley, thanks to its striking cover for the first four volumes of The Yellow Book (1894-5).
In the post-war era, book covers became very important because the book industry has become commercially competitive. The cover now provides detailed instructions on the style, genre, and subject of the book, while many push designs reach their limits in the hope of attracting sales attention.
This may vary from country to country due to other market tastes. So translated books can also have different book-accessories such as toys belonging to children's books, such as Harry Potter.
The era of Internet sales has undoubtedly reduced the importance of book covers, as it continues to play its role in a two dimensional digital form, helping to identify and promote books online.
Cover cover is also common.
Contents
The contents of- Front cover are usually:
- For novels, novel titles in capital letters, author names, tagline and publisher symbols (on the corner)
- Back cover (also called 'bottom cover' content) can usually be:
- For a novel, back cover or teaser text that gives the story a point of interest.
- Author image.
- Summary
See also
- Book binding - the physical book-making process
- Do not judge a book by its cover, a phrase derived from the perceived difference between the book's depiction on its cover or jacket, and the contents of the book
Further reading
- Eight Years of Cover Book Design , Joseph Connolly. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. ISBNÃ, 978-0-571-24000-5 (hardcover) and ISBNÃ, 978-0-571-24001-2 (paperback).
External links
- Book Cover Archive
- * "Leading Publisher Publisher-Grand Valley State University Archives and Special Collections". Archived from the original in 2013-01-06. Ã, -containing bunds of publishers visited from 1870 to 1930
- The historic book cover design Gallery
- The garbage fiction covering Gallery
- The Art of Penguin Science Fiction History and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to the present day
- Thomas Bonn Collection of Publishers Interviews - over 100 audio interviews with publishers, art directors, etc. about cover art topics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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