The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by proactively collaborating with partners in the field to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to broaden digital access to information. Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original book covers for some of the greatest works in the public domain, where anyone can contribute.
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Artist Statement Made for a "shotgun" project in Applied 2D Graphics class at Cincinnati State. Assigned by professor Joel Knueven. - Markayla Romohr
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Artist StatementA split portrait of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, when they were young and enmeshed. Because we know how it ends. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementBig Ben tolls out the hours. Mrs. Dalloway and the soldier work towards their destinies - she has a party and he jumps out of a window. She admires...
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Artist Statement I tried to reflect (ha pun) on how White Fang faces under the struggle of who he is; a wolf or a dog. - Vic Berrios
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Artist Statement The image I created centers on a huge, distorted shadow of a man representing Frankenstein's monster. Symbolizing the monster's origin, the shadow stems from a distraught man (Frankenstein)...
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Artist StatementThis great Maxfield Parrish illustration is now part of the public domain, and it still has the magic of strange adventure on foreign seas. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementA contrast between good and bad self, so nice to do in black and white. Sort of a mirror image, but distorted. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementThis honors the great Howard Pyle, who illustrates the moment young Arthur pulls the Sword from the Stone. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementCreation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art direction...
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Artist StatementCreation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art direction...
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Artist StatementChaucer is one of the greatest writers in English, so why not add his coat of arms? He lets us see what real people thought and what they said,...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist Statement Acting: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns /...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist StatementNietzsche thought long and hard about what it is to be a human - what do we really want? How to be good, how to be bad, how to...
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Artist Statement Acting: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns /...
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Artist StatementAesop's Fables have been told and retold for hundreds of years. This public domain illustration charmingly describes some kind of relationship between the two talking birds and the thinking...
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Artist StatementThis beautiful public domain illustration captures the complexity of the Little Mermaid story by Hans Christian Andersen. - Vivian Chang
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Artist Statement I wanted to depict the main characters in a sort of 'yin and yang' composition to show off their good and evil juxtaposition. I was told that there...
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Artist Statement For this project, I wanted to depict the main stars Erik/Phantom and Christine using the 'Angel of Music' and 'mirror' symbols. While they are centered and together on...
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Artist StatementFreud wrote about the conscious, the unconscious, the preconscious, the ego and id, love and death. He used the image of a rider's relationship of control, to the strength...
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Artist StatementReading these arguments for a United States of America make you realize that they were literally stitching together a new government, in parts and in haste. Wow. - Vivian...
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Artist StatementBertrand Russell was understandably worried about where the world would go next, after WW1. The old order was obviously crumbling, and what would become of us all? - Vivian...
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Artist Statement I was inspired by the Ancient Greek tradition of black and red figure pottery for my cover of Aesop's Fables. I wanted to emphasize the historic nature of...
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Artist Statement The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of my favorite books! Combining my love of cathedrals and unusual protagonists, I had to draw it. I started with sketching...
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Artist StatementThomas Hobbs wrote this about why people need to band together under an authority to establish freedom and liberty. When things get big, it's too much for each single...
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Artist StatementWomen were confined in many ways in the time and place described in the book. A corset is a poignant symbol of what constrained women. Yikes. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementMarx and Engels wrote during a period of political and social revolution. They scared the pants off The Establishment. They tried to figure out what was going on and...
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Artist StatementMill wrote about "liberty" in terms of the Victorian society that he lived in, and in relation to his strict religious upbringing . He was a little fuzzy on...
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Artist StatementBoy meets girl, boy and girl fight bad guys, girl dies. Boy mourns and tells story. Not the best variation but interesting for ideas about the moon at the...
