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Anonymous Mon Sep 27 10:28:57 2021 No.19128492 [Reply] [Original]

Why are old paintings on book covers so KINO!? Post amazing book covers with old paintings in ITT, or paintings you want to be turned into book covers

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 10:31:38 2021 No.19128497 >>19128492 They’re catnip for pseuds that are attracted to the aesthetics of reading rather than reading itself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 10:32:33 2021 No.19128503 File: 51 KB, 413x243, soy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >muh aesthetics Only pseuds care about what's on the cover

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 10:35:21 2021 No.19128512
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Pic rel always reminds me of The Old Man and the Sea

>>19128497
in the age of e-books and PDFs, physical books have been rendered almost completely obsolete. Obviously, if I'm going to pay for a physical book nowadays, at the very least it can have a nice cover

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 10:46:52 2021 No.19128556

>>19128492
Reading is dead because of narcissistic faggots obsessing over the tactility and aesthetics of their books and not the words therein. I will say, however, that this cover is pretty good. You could probably frame this picture with the book title included as a legitimate work of art, it really is a good combo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 10:59:38 2021 No.19128618 File: 498 KB, 500x775, My Diary, Desu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] another one I made

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 11:01:47 2021 No.19128629 >>19128503 >>19128497 Being an "epic intellectual that doesn't care about the aesthetics" is just as much an aesthetic choice as the opposite, you retards. Books are nice, and they feel nice to hold in your hand. Let a nigga enjoy things

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 11:05:29 2021 No.19128648 File: 55 KB, 1200x630, Saint_Jerome_by_the_Le_Nain_brothers_1642-43.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19128618

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 13:11:32 2021 No.19129299 >>19128618 lol, nice

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 15:36:28 2021 No.19130015 File: 547 KB, 500x775, All The Pretty Horses.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] found some nice western paintings, gonna make some Cormac McCarthy book covers >>19128648 that's a nice one, suggest a book for it and I'll make a cover

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 15:42:12 2021 No.19130049 File: 321 KB, 447x622, mdd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19128618 I prefer the Penguin edition.

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 15:46:08 2021 No.19130064
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>>19130015
I found the perfect painting for The Crossing: a lone wolf, alone at night in a snowy forest; I feel like it perfectly captures the tone and mood of the first part of the book, but the painting itself is not long enough to fill the bottom part of the cover; I bet someone with better photoshop skills than I could fix it by cutting off the bottom and moving it down so it does fill it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 15:48:47 2021 No.19130078 >>19128497 >>19128503 Those trying too hard are always the biggest pseuds.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 15:51:07 2021 No.19130089 File: 630 KB, 500x775, The Stonemason.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] another Cormac McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 15:52:02 2021 No.19130095 >>19128492 Real art is always better than apstract shapes or just colours

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 16:06:03 2021 No.19130148 File: 76 KB, 700x385, 67yhy6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Vrubel

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 16:07:56 2021 No.19130158 File: 254 KB, 1024x884, vrubelsixwingedseraph.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19130148 Another vrubel, would make a kino cover

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 16:14:07 2021 No.19130194 File: 547 KB, 1600x2448, the_baphomet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 16:17:42 2021 No.19130220 >>19128497 Oh, fuck off. A good cover is nice to see and that goes for books, movies and music albums.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 16:29:29 2021 No.19130293 File: 678 KB, 500x775, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 16:33:18 2021 No.19130322 File: 616 KB, 500x775, The House of Asterion.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19130148 >>19130158 those are beautiful anon

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Mon Sep 27 18:23:19 2021 No.19131013 File: 667 KB, 500x775, F71EFDC0-9F48-4052-820C-741239F69A8C.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19130322 >>19130293 Perfect. >>19130015 They verge so much on legit covers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 18:40:38 2021 No.19131098 File: 795 KB, 500x775, Suttree.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19131013 kek, love that one

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 18:45:04 2021 No.19131115 >>19128492 >>19128618 >>19130015 >>19130064 >>19130089 >>19130322 >>19131098 Choose wisely for Blood Meridian. I nominate Gigachad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 18:49:17 2021 No.19131137 >>19131098 This disgusts me

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 18:54:30 2021 No.19131161
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>>19131115
>Blood Meridian
finding an appropriate photograph for that one is really tough; one option is to use the original painting that was on the cover of the first edition, pic rel

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 18:56:15 2021 No.19131172 >>19128492 weird, what's that last word in the title? I don't quite understand since someone put a dash

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:11:00 2021 No.19131246 File: 890 KB, 500x775, hc.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:11:24 2021 No.19131252 File: 597 KB, 500x775, The Road.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19131161 not too happy with this one, but finding an appropriate painting for The Road might be harder than any of McCarthy's other books

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:14:54 2021 No.19131267 File: 638 KB, 500x775, A Rose For Emily.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I like this one though

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:20:05 2021 No.19131294 File: 716 KB, 500x775, Collected Short Stories.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19131267 and this one, similar vibe

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:24:20 2021 No.19131307 >>19131246 Kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:35:16 2021 No.19131346 File: 553 KB, 500x775, Collected Taliban Poetry (1).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19128618

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 19:38:29 2021 No.19131363 File: 231 KB, 1159x665, sz.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19131098 >>19131161 >>19131267 >>19131294 >Southern American writer >shitty bucolic view painting GET BETTER MATERIAL NEW YORKER READING FAGGOT

Anonymous Mon Sep 27 22:04:20 2021 No.19131984

>>19128556
>Reading is dead because of narcissistic faggots obsessing over the tactility and aesthetics of their books and not the words therein. I will say, however, that this cover is pretty good. You could probably frame this picture with the book title included as a legitimate work of art, it really is a good combo.
Anon, I presume you have no knowledge whatsoever of the history of books, or of the scrolls and other forms of “books” that were used before the Codex form of book became dominant in Europe and the Middle East and other places.
While some early Bibles are plain(ie. Lacking decoration) the early official copies were still handwritten on animal vellum, and dyed purple( incredibly expensive at the time), and for a millennia afterwards.
The oldest manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid, the “ Vergilius Vaticanus” is heavily illuminated with painting of scenes from the book.
Books remained being illuminated with artwork up thru the invention of the printing press, and Gutenberg, even had instruction books for how his printed bibles should be decorated and illuminated.
Modern hardbacks with a decorated dust jacket, and cheap cloth covers maybe nice, but are also far from what was expected from past books, and would basically be considered the highly puritanical version of book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 28 01:33:34 2021 No.19132680 >>19128503 Imagine not doing everything in your power to surround yourself with beauty Peak midwit

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