Sisters Artwork - Themes /Origins

[Randall Flagg]

I was wondering if anyone knew the origins behind the Damage Done artwork, essentially the origin or source of the photo on the cover.

Also given how precise Von is/was about the images, font and layout etc, I'm surprised that they used Gustave Dore's image from Dante's Divine Comedy for Body and Soul as Factory band Crispy Ambulance had used the same image a couple of years earlier.

Flagg

[markfiend]

I vaguely remember reading (on here somewhere probably) that the DD sleeve is a frame from an old silent movie?

[lachert]

poor that "1959 and all that" doesn't work anymore iirc there was a few information about sistres covers, as cooper's anaconda, national geographic's reptile house etc.

[Being645]

It's still working, look ...

http://1959.tsom.org/

[markfiend]

Other covers:
Alice is "Blue Nude I" by Henri Matisse


Body Electric is "Head VI" by Francis Bacon


lachert mentions Anaconda, it's the cover of Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies":


Reptile House see lachert's post

Temple Of Love is a commissioned piece I believe.

As Randall Flagg mentions, Body And Soul is from the Divine Comedy.

Any more?

[MadameButterfly]

Other covers:
Alice is "Blue Nude I" by Henri Matisse

I have a painting very similar to this at home done by a friend's mother, no wonder Andrew S fell in love with it!

[Chairman Bux]

Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

[Silver_Owl]

Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

'Gary, pass me that pencil. Craig that's rubbish, start again.' and so on....

[Chairman Bux]

Suffice to say it was the first and last time the drummer did the artwork.

[Silver_Owl]

Suffice to say it was the first and last time the drummer did the artwork.

'Nuff said.
Good job done though.

[Chairman Bux]

And while I'm being helpful, there have been doubts raised elsewhere on here about the source & lineage of the Dante image for B+S.

Suggestions of deliberate sabotage and thievery are wildly over-stated, but I will say that the image was brought to the attention of The Sisters some time before it was actually used, and some time before the Crispy Ambulance record (which I've never heard of).

[markfiend]

Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

Ah. Like I said, I had understood that it was a commissioned piece (possibly from an art student). Thanks for the clarification.

Although most people will probably have to look "Nanker/Phelge" up...

[lachert]

just for the image collection:

[paint it black]

And while I'm being helpful, there have been doubts raised elsewhere on here about the source & lineage of the Dante image for B+S.

Suggestions of deliberate sabotage and thievery are wildly over-stated, but I will say that the image was brought to the attention of The Sisters some time before it was actually used, and some time before the Crispy Ambulance record (which I've never heard of).

One day over high tea Danny told me 'that bastard Eldritch robbed our idea'. Though I believe it was to be a white colouration

[jost 7]

is the origin of anaconda really the alice cooper release, or was it also simply used thatfor and does come from a different source?

btw, bayon is a great place to be, although reptiles come from all over the world these days. middlesection comes quite close to the cover image.

[Chairman Bux]

One day over high tea Danny told me 'that bastard Eldritch robbed our idea'. Though I believe it was to be a white colouration

Tsk. You should know better than to trust anything Mr Horigan tells you, especially over high tea - he only ever tells the truth after 8pm.

[Quiff Boy]

yeah, that matches what i heard...

i was told that the dante image was going to be the artwork for salvation's debut album "clash of dreams", scheduled for release on merciful release (but the colours reversed - red image on white bg) until they fell out with the MR staff, or possibly eldritch himself, and the album was binned - along with the artwork

something like this i guess:



although the timelines dont quite work - from what i heard, CoD was supposed to be released in 1985, so unless danny had shown it to eldritch in late 83/early 84, i son't see how that works

or have i got the proposed release date for CoD wrong?

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

I was always under the impression that Mr E. was wholly responsible for the minimalist TOL artwork.

Temple was a Nanker/Phelge job.

We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right.

Perhaps Herr Chairman could clarify.

[James Blast]

Temple was a Nanker Phelge job.

that's Jagger/Richards to them not clued in and

Keith says: “I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.�

[Randall Flagg]

And while I'm being helpful, there have been doubts raised elsewhere on here about the source & lineage of the Dante image for B+S.

Suggestions of deliberate sabotage and thievery are wildly over-stated, but I will say that the image was brought to the attention of The Sisters some time before it was actually used, and some time before the Crispy Ambulance record (which I've never heard of).

That's fascinating, however the Crispy Ambulance 10" was released in 1980.

Flagg

[pikkrong]

so, what about Damage Done...? a silent movie?

[stufarq]

Looks like Randall Flagg's right.



http://www.crispyambulance.com/recordings/fac32.html

[Big Si]

so, what about Damage Done...? a silent movie?

Y used to have a site with all of the test pressings (he owned them) on it. I remember there was an invoice to Gary Marx for the pressing costs, etc. The Damage Done cover was Gary's idea wasn't it?

[lachert]

It's still working, look ...

http://1959.tsom.org/

thanks Being645, i've got some geocities address

[lachert]

so, what about Damage Done...? a silent movie?

Y used to have a site with all of the test pressings (he owned them) on it. I remember there was an invoice to Gary Marx for the pressing costs, etc. The Damage Done cover was Gary's idea wasn't it?

poor that Y site is no more online but lachert still got that invoice:


+ damage insert:



nice, but nothing about the cover