<p>Since the dawn of modernism, <strong>visual and music production</strong> have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo¿s 1913 Futurist manifesto <em>L¿Arte dei Rumori </em>(<em>The Art of Noise</em>) to Marcel Duchamp¿s 1925 double-sided discs <em>Rotoreliefs</em>, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance.<br/><br/> In Francesco Spampinato¿s <strong>unique anthology of artists¿ record covers</strong>, we discover the rhythm of this<strong> particular cultural history</strong>. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how <strong>modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, </strong>and various forms of <strong>contemporary art </strong>practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with <strong>defining imagery that swiftly