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noisemachine 11.13.2006 11:42 AM

Destroyed Room art
 
 

RanaldoNecro 11.13.2006 11:46 AM





Very cool...they always seem to use singular images

guitarpro 11.13.2006 12:51 PM

Cool

Richard Pryor on Fire 11.13.2006 01:07 PM

I really like that.

marleypumpkin 11.13.2006 01:21 PM

Thanks for making me even more anxious than I was before. Really, the artwork looks great. Someone had fun creating the image I'm sure.

noisemachine 11.13.2006 03:06 PM

A little background on the picture on the cover:
Its actually a photograph from 1978 by Jeff Wall called The Destroyed Room.
Heres a little blurb on it, from http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibi...oms/room1.shtm

The Destroyed Room 1978

'My first pictures like The Destroyed Room emerged from a re-encounter with nineteenth-century art', Wall has said. Here, the work in question is The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugène Delacroix, which depicts the Assyrian monarch on his deathbed, commanding the destruction of his possessions and slaughter of his concubines in a last act of defiance against invading armies.


 

 
Enlarge Image
The Destroyed Room 1978
Transparency in lightbox 1590 x 2340 mm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1988
Cinematographic photograph
© The artist

Wall echoes Delacroix's composition, with its central sweeping diagonal and sumptuous palette of blood reds, while acknowledging its staged atmosphere by re-composing the scene as a roughly fabricated stage-set, absent of any players. 'Through the door you can see that it's only a set held up by supports, that this is not a real space, this is no-one's house,' he has commented. Though clearly a woman's bedroom, the cause of the violence is unexplained, leaving the viewer to speculate on the sequence of events.

arthritis2600 11.13.2006 03:11 PM

I don't like the image at all.

k-krack 11.13.2006 03:34 PM

Sweet, I was just getting annoyed at how I couldn't see it bigger on Insound.
I had preordered it a while ago with a few other cds... now I get an email saying that I could get a 10-15% discount on my whoe order if I buy the Detroyed Room... Fuck!

m^a(t)h 11.13.2006 03:42 PM

that photograph sucks..

k-krack 11.13.2006 03:45 PM

Pfft, you suck.

hey alex 11.13.2006 04:15 PM

not too bad... almost enough to warrant purchase. Almost.

Tokolosh 11.13.2006 04:21 PM

 

It's not a bad cover, but I prefer this one.

static-harmony 11.13.2006 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kegmama
Right on noisemachine. Thanks for the info.
I like the image. And I will buy the cd, but only to add to the collection becuz I am a completist. Do you know how much shit they have that we have never heard and may never hear? I want some of that old school action to be released. Damn it.


Yeah I want some pre-geffen release.

A Thousand Threads 11.13.2006 05:18 PM

mhm
i´m not sure if i´ll buy it cuz i already have all of the songs.
does anyone know if it´s going to be released on vinyl too?

A Thousand Threads 11.13.2006 05:34 PM

thanks

Danny Himself 11.13.2006 05:37 PM

Looks nice. I like it better than a lot of other SY covers.

Cantankerous 11.13.2006 05:45 PM

little did you know, that's a picture of my bedroom.

jon boy 11.16.2006 07:47 AM

it reminds me on a natalie umbruglia video.

atari 2600 11.16.2006 08:35 AM

I've posted some Ingres images too, but also Delacroix pictures here before. His most famous is Liberty Leading the People.
I've always liked The Death of Sardanapalus most though. Ah, how we can all sit back and miss the days when naturalistic paintings actually had content.

toxic johnny 11.16.2006 09:11 AM

Scroll down a little... for some Delacroix http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...763#post224763


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