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

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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11.13.2006, 03:06 PM	#6
noisemachine 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 651	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. __________________ The best radio station ever: http://www.kcsb.org/?page_id=9
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m^a(t)h expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,204	that photograph sucks..
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11.13.2006, 04:15 PM	#11
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Tokolosh invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Plaza de Toros Posts: 6,731	It's not a bad cover, but I prefer this one.
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A Thousand Threads expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,000	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?
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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	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.
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