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.
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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.