Recrational
Discographics
a book by Patrice Caillet
The
most frequent forms of collecting/conservating with
consumption pictures exclude all modification of the
original. A “polished” commercial image is
rarely tampered with, and very few would dare intervene
on the immaculate surface of a prized consumer product.
In spite of this, we have all seen a coarsely drawn
sexual organ on a starlet, a discreetly appended moustache
(as upon Marcel Duchamp’s famous Mona Lisa), or
an improvised pointillist outbreak of chicken pox with
a purple felt tip pen on the portrait of another famous
face.
This iconographic and documentary “study”
focuses on a selection of record covers of a variety
of formats 12” LP, CD, Tapes but largely upon 7”
45 rpm. All the selected covers were "modified"
or “remade" by unknowns using the original
as a canvas or as an inspirational rebuilding source
and have subsequently been discovered at private individual’s
residences, flea markets or at boot sales (garage sales).
Frequently sleeves are found covered with timid and
unfinished inscriptions, random traces and botched drawings.
Most are simple squiggles, messy retouching, cut out
of parts and pieced together with sellotape. But in
other cases I’ve unearthed more elaborate creations,
drawings, collage, painting and other forms of customization.
Sometimes I’ve even found montages assembled with,
possibly, an accompanying artistic, or literary intention
(comments, puns, poems). The graphic forms tend to be
as varied as the reasons for the intervention on the
object itself.
By turns stammering and needlessly witty, their graphics
considered vague or petty, for these reasons, they are
frequently regarded with contempt as minor, vulgar,
ridiculous and the product of an insignificant unimportant
practice.
Nevertheless, however one perceives them, they remain
an expression of memories, sentiments, the site of risked
aesthetic attempts and sometimes stupefying remarks
oscillating between copy, stylization, quotation, diversion,
projection, idealization, creation, iconoclasm…
This book "DISCOGRAPHISME RE-CREATIF" could
be a subjective iconographic history of popular music;
considering these productions “beyond good or bad
taste”, pursuing a documentary approach and in
admiration of this singular and dissonant experiment
of daily life.
Patrice Caillet (translation by Gwem Jamois)
If you got or if you realize this kind of cover art,
we will be pleased to integrate them in our next project.
128
pages. Prix public : 25 euros
Parution : Novembre 2004
Éditions Bricolage, 40 bd Paul Vaillant-Couturier,
93100 Montreuil
Bricolagea@free.fr
Diffusion : Association Disco-Babel, 8 rue Lamblardie,
75012 Paris.
hello@discobabel.com
– www.discobabel.com
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