James Green

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Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk

Old peregrine cover: dark background, vivid signatures over it of defoe richardson and fielding
Penguin classics edition w 5th century bce depiction of bacchante
Cameroon garage funk compilation Jubal- Raíces Schlammpeitziger- Augenwischwaldmoppgeflöte Square pusher- Kammerkonzert Jonny nash- at the emerald pool Wendy eisenberg - s/t Kíla & oki Sam gender and sam wilkes- unrelated Olski - big ting ep
Ben Nicholson and Barbara hepworth. Like the contents, the cover is just too busy
Norton edition w impressionist painting, thematically appropriate: 'la liaison' by jean paul sinibaldi
Cindy Lee- diamond jubilee Skee mask- pool Floetry- floating Keith hudson- pick a dub Javelin- canyon candy Nic jones- from the devil to a stranger Ulrika spacek- expo Abc - the lexicon of love Peshay- reflections
Shamed gangster hides face in b/w. The big sleep and other novels penguin modern classics
Collage where the text of the title is made up of two of the same book over each other, one a line drawing, another purple and colourful
Jana horn s/t Fela best of- Mabe fratti and bill orcutt- almost waking Sun araw- lifetime Funaná compilation from cape verde All things must pass - george harrison Ibrahim alfa jr - infinite black inside Maria bc- marathon Sun araw + m. Geddes gengras + the congos - tys vol 9
Detail of the Pergamon frieze with the title laid over it ominously. WG Sebald sez it's a 'magnum opus'
Dagmar zuniga- your mystery is kingdom/far smile peasant in yellow Barrio húmedo- folklore leonés Umeko ando - upopo sanke Anthology of Greek folk music Jordi sabatés- ocells del més enllà Kikagaku moyo- house in the tall grass Miki hirayama- onigashima Reuben Wilson- set us free Anthology of Psychedelic rock from cape Verde and angola
Bread n butter - monday morning Flying saucer attack s/t Makoto kubota - Dixie fever Can - ege bamyasi Jefre cantu-ledesma- gift songs Sarah davachi - the head as form'd in the crier's choir Bob Dylan- highway 61 revisited Carl perkins - the dance album Bowie - hunky dory
Text in black and green, rough and ready style, over a partial image of young man with eyes closed asleep or in ecstasy
Old cover, ted looks purple and sad
The title in white handwriting on purple
Text over print of candles diminishing
Collage abstraction of reds, yellows, blue of classical female nudes with lush nyrb textbox in purple and orange laid over it
Holman hunt's excellent painting the scapegoat in lady lever
Detail from antoine wiertz's 'l'inhumation précipitée' on a penguin classics, terrified man reaching out of coffin, 10/10
Gothic text over a page - you can see the missal has beautiful marginal illustrations of Dorset birds
Cover is text over detail from still life with mask by hendrick andriessen
Abstract cover design in 60s style, broken chain and red sun on paper-coloured background
Blue pastoral scene suggests ice - nyrb blue box over it
Dreadful cover, lilac, a tuxedo becomes writing, too much text including a big 'foreword by Stewart lee' that comes off gauche
Library of Wales cover - the title in blue on black background, and a Cubist painting with text from letters over it
Stone circle
Ultra clear river — it's got plant life in it making it almost as green as fields by it
Green fields, little chalk stream, prehistoric man made mound c. 30 m, blue sky
Still from nosferatu (1922)
V simple red circles on black containing the relevant words
Annoying caricatures by Edward sorel of yeats joyce and o'casey on this. Ugh hated looking at this cover.
Teal verso radical thinkers edition, with a white line drawing showing a spiky circle split into quadrants symbolising the four phenomena determining women's social roles according to mitchell
Statue gets blasted in face over grey... much to think about
A place called finnegans fish and chips, crucially lacking the apostrophe to signal joycean affiliation
Penguin classics, looking directly up, ruined abbey and blue sky. Religion etc ya know
Penguin classics cover, 16c Irish manuscript illustration of the big man himself flanked by colourful organic and geometric motifs
Penguin classics, with a courbet depiction of two lower-class men on horseback discussing things
I remember one conversation with Theodor Adorno when, after I'd said what I'd done that morning (checking out some books from the library, going to the laundromat, etc.), and asked "What about you," I was slightly chilled when he answered: "I have been meditating on erotic and musicological problems."
Schoolboys from the 50s, shattered glass over it, somewhat unsubtle cover design tbh
Somewhat hacky visual pun where a monkey's eye and nose become a moon and a rocket. Otherwise a nice faber edition
Leo attempting to walk into a mirror world, or climb it, or converse with herself. In the end she is a mystery.
Heinemann African writers book. The cover is by Christopher Brown, a really cool painting of people in kente cloth awed in the presence of a monstrous collection of consumer goods like tv, coca cola, cars, appliances etc.
Somewhat sickly and maudlin watercolour of the author, old penguin edition
10/10 New Directions cover in cool grey-green with lovely sans serif font for title, author etc in olive green, and a picture of the Great Falls in the Passaic River by Paterson, NJ
Black lines on sickly yellow making up and refracting the initials YR. Part of the letter R is pink
Book cover shows 18th century image of a hare. Cowper had three pet hares
Cover of the book: white lines on black suggest contours, heat, boundaries
1. ambrose akinmusire - honey from a winter stone 2. richard dawson - end of the middle 3. dean blunt, elias rønnenfeldt - lucre 4. ichiko aoba - luminescent creatures 5. rattle - encircle 6. billy woods - GOLLIWOG 7. quade - the foel tower 8. natural information society, bitchin bajas - totality 9. mary halvorson - about ghosts 10. water damage - instruments 11. enji - sonor 12. gláss - s/t 13. jefre cantu-ledesma - gift songs 14. james blackshaw - unraveling in your hands 15. brighde chaimbeul - sunwise 16. james holden, wacław zimpel - the universe will take care of you 17. dj dadaman, moscow dollar - kagaza 18. amina claudine myers - solace of the mind 19. kali malone, drew mcdowall - magnetism 20. armand hammer - mercy 21. bitterviper - s/t 22. ellen arkbro - nightclouds 23. eiko ishibashi - antigone 24. barker - stochastic drift 25. blood orange - essex honey not in that order unfortch, up 2 u 2 figure out why
Bizarrely modern crime classics cover for a novel from 1829
Disturbing rendition of a pleading man in desperation
The classic all red Calder publications cover of 'Trilogy' with a great photo of the man himself in coat & scarf, drinking a coffee at a Paris café