{"id":12527,"date":"2023-01-17T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2023-01-29T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T17:04:53","slug":"art-on-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/17\/art-on-saturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Art on Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sun Ra\u2019s Legendary Album Art\u2014Sometimes Handcrafted, Always Otherworldly\u2014Has Been Compiled Into a Book for the First Time<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

“Sun Ra: Art on Saturn” features a vast quantity of album covers that were handcrafted by Ra and his bandmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Min Chen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A handmade Sun Ra album cover, from\u00a0Sun Ra: Art on Saturn<\/em>. Photo: Courtesy of Fantagraphics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As an artist, Sun Ra was prone to restlessness. Never content with simply being a jazzman, Ra would, from the late 1950s, unleash a stream of records with his group Arkestra that edged the genre into the realm of the avant-garde. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he didn\u2019t stop there: Ra\u2019s groundbreaking music came packaged in similarly alluring album covers, which psychedelically melded his multitude of preoccupations from ancient Egyptian iconography to emerging sci-fi tropes. They were otherworldly designs, forging a visually distinctive path where there was none before. \u201cThese covers,\u201d in the estimation of Irwin Chusid, \u201cbelonged between covers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s why Chusid, the exclusive administrator of Ra\u2019s catalog, has edited and released\u00a0Sun Ra: Art on Saturn<\/em><\/a>, the first publication to focus on the artist\u2019s cover art. Chiefly, it features the sleeves of the 70 albums that Ra released on his independent record label, Saturn, from 1957 to 1988. They were designed by artists such as Chris Hall and Claude Dangerfield, whose creative processes are documented in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from artnet Sun Ra\u2019s Legendary Album Art\u2014Sometimes Handcrafted, Always Otherworldly\u2014Has Been Compiled Into a Book for the First Time “Sun Ra: Art on Saturn” features a vast quantity of album covers that were handcrafted by Ra and his bandmates. by Min Chen As an artist, Sun Ra was prone to restlessness. Never content with simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}