Album cover design by Josef Albers for Provocative Percussion, Volume 2, an album published/released by the Command Records label featuring the music of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade. Printed in black against a white background, at the top of the design: volume 2 / provocative percussion; across bottom: ENOCH LIGHT and THE LIGHT BRIGADE. The center of the design is filled with black circles of varying sizes randomly placed.

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1960	Work on this object began.
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Album Cover, Provocative Percussion, Volume 2, 1960

This is a Album cover. It was designed by Josef Albers and the art director was Charles E. Murphy and published by Command Records and made for (as the client) Command Records and subject: Enoch Light and the Light Brigade. It is dated 1960 and we acquired it in 2018. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper, gate-fold cardboard.

This object was donated by Ellen Lupton. It is credited Gift of Ellen Lupton.

Recto: On a salmon colored background, in the top half, Talking Heads is imprinted on a curve in green in upper and lower case partly connected letters; immediately below, centered, Hey Now is imprinted in bright pink. In the center, there is a photograph about two inches high of a long-haired singer in a zoot-styled shiny jacketed suit; his lege are bent, his left arm holds a microphone to his mouth and his right arm hangs straight down. Blue collar and cuffs peek out from the jacket and black and white shoes are seen beneath the cuffs of the black pants. Beneath the figure, Radio Head in chartreuse capitals outlined in green appears on one line and From the film 'True Stories' appears in upper and lower case blue script.
Verso: On a chartreuse background, an illustration of a multicolored painted accordian appears in the center. In small black capitals, Radio Head is imprinted above to the left and below to the left and right, while Hey Now is imprinted above to the right. Production information appears below each of these four song title listings and A and B, in capitals, are imrpinted to the left and right respectively of the central illustration.
Inside, left: There is a photograph of a group of boys, roughly arranged in a row, wearing green shirts and dark pants (jeans?). The shirts have identical unidentified insignias on the top right. The boys are waiving sticks in their upraised arms, are open-mouthed and appear to be calling out. Toward the center, one boy is holding an unidentified animal (dog? pony?) on a leash; to his right, another boy holds an unidentified object in one hand. From left to right, just behind the boys, are utility poles; on the right is a swing set and on the extreme right a partial view of a house. A pale blue cloudy sky appears in the background and dried brown earth and grass occupy the foreground.
Inside, right: A night color photograph of the inside of a bar or clubhouse, in predominantly pink and purple tones, shows a man and woman at a table in the foreground, a man and woman at a table in the middle distance, and a man on the left in the background. The tables are lit by candles in holders which cast a glow on the faces, there are drinks on the tables, and there is probably some entertainment, not included in the design, taking place. The man on the left at the front table appears to be looking at something in the near distance. He has a thin moustache and thick curly hair in an afro style and wears a print shirt beneath a suit jacket. The woman on the right, at the same table, is facing straight ahead, but her eyes are cast to her left. She has long straight hair and wears a thin chain around her neck and a geometric print dress. The man in the middle distance and the woman next to him are dressed in white shirts. Both have black curly hair and he has a moustache, as does the man in the background.
woman on the right wears a geometric print dress.
them, and a man

Album Cover, Talking Heads: Hey Now / Radio Head, 1987
Closed, 18.5 x 18.5 cm (7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.) Opened, 18.5 x 37.5 cm (7/38 x 14....
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-117

Recto: A photograph of a tornado is reproduced in brown tones against a strip of pale greenish-blue sky in the upper two thirds; below the sky is a narrow strip containing a few buildings and utility poles, all barely decipherable, above a wider strip of brown earth. Specially Priced Maxi Single is imprinted in small white capitals, centered, at the top; just below, Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods is imprinted in pale pink script all across. Rev It Up, in large white capitals, with the two letters of the last word both upside down and reversed, is centered about two inches below the Harrison line.
Verso: The same tornado image, with added bluish tones and moved to the left, appears. The features of the narrow strip are more distinct and a red-roofed building is added on the right. The album song titles,
musicians' names, and other production informatiion is imprinted on the strip of ground at the bottom.

Album Cover, Jerry Harrison, Rev It Up, 1988
offset lithography.
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-68

Album Cover, Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns, 1981
offset lithography.
Gift of Tibor Kalman/ M & Co..
1993-151-69

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List of songs provided by Jazz at Lincoln Center, played in the Immersion Room during the run of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Immersion Room Playlist, 2017
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Its dimensions are

30.5 × 30.5 cm (12 × 12 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, upper left corner: STEREO; upper right corner: Command / records / RS 810 SD

Cite this object as

Album Cover, Provocative Percussion, Volume 2, 1960; Designed by Josef Albers (German, 1888–1976, active USA, 1933–1976); offset lithograph on white wove paper, gate-fold cardboard; 30.5 × 30.5 cm (12 × 12 in.); Gift of Ellen Lupton; 2018-45-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hear, See, Play: Designing with Sound.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2JUQPD/
Accession Number 2018-45-1
Object ID 1141959659