{"id":617,"date":"2010-11-25T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=617"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:07:49","slug":"covering-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2010\/11\/25\/covering-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>On their blog, Penguin Books UK recently posted the covers<\/a> for their new hardback re-issue of several of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works<\/a>. The foil artwork, by Coralie Bickford-Smith, is Art Deco in nature, echoing Fitzgerald’s times. The not-quite-symmetrical scallops on the cover of The Great Gatsby<\/em> are quite striking, a commentary, perhaps, on the not-quite-harmonious contents within.<\/p>\n

Every attempt at creating a cover for The Great Gatsby<\/em> has to contend with Francis Cugat<\/a>‘s iconic cover image<\/a>, and I think Coralie Bickford-Smith takes the right approach here. Cugat’s image hews so perfectly to the novel that you can’t compete with it, and the Penguin cover instead takes a more muted, subtle tone—not an image but a feeling, a movement, an emotion.<\/p>\n

And, one must add, the Penguin cover looks great with the other volumes<\/a> in the re-issue series. Coherence of artistic cover vision within a series of books is so very important, and Penguin tends to get that aspect of series design correct, as seen in their Ian Fleming re-issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\n\"Yes,At any rate, the Penguin cover avoids the crimes of some earlier Gatsby<\/em> covers, including this uncredited example from the 1946 Bantam Books paperback second edition. I applaud the effort, but that’s one long champagne glass stem…<\/p>\n

(Top image<\/a> by Penguin Books<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On their blog, Penguin Books UK recently posted the covers for their new hardback re-issue of several of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works. The foil artwork, by Coralie Bickford-Smith, is Art Deco in nature, echoing Fitzgerald’s times. The not-quite-symmetrical scallops on the cover of The Great Gatsby are quite striking, a commentary, perhaps, on the not-quite-harmonious … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-penguin-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-9X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}