GATEWAYS

A exposição Gateways, programada pela Fundação Serralves e comissariada por Andrew Howard, estará patente no Silo-Espaço Cultural (Norteshopping) até ao dia 20 de Setembro.

É composta por mais de 400 capas de livros concebidas por “designers de 15 países e reúne uma selecção de capas de livros contemporâneos memoráveis por vezes geniais e frequentemente belas“.

- saber mais aqui na agenda do Silo-Espaço Cultural

SOBRE LIVROS E CAPAS

“So you go into a bookshop and every book by a female writer seems to come with one of two varieties of chicklit cover: swirly faux hand-lettering over a washed-out photograph, or choppy faux hand-lettering over a candy-coloured cartoon. Such a shame, you think. Why don't these writers have the courage to branch out?
Not our fault, say the writers. We branch out as much as ever. But publishers insist on putting everything under similar covers.
Not our fault, say the publishers. We would try imaginative covers - but bookshops won't order them.
Not our fault, say the booksellers. Your fault. This is what people buy.”

- ver o artigo completo de Peter Robins para o Paper Tiger