From the birth of punk to the postmodern computer age, artists Peter Saville, Sarah Lucas, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hirst and Gillian Wearing among others capture the zeitgeist of British art, cult...
From the birth of punk to the postmodern computer age, artists Peter Saville, Sarah Lucas, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hirst and Gillian Wearing among others capture the zeitgeist of British art, culture and society© Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon. Courtesy of the artists© Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon. Courtesy of the artists
‘Tell me, how do I feel? Tell me now, how do I feel?’ sings Bernard Sumner in New Order’s unmistakable. First released in March 1983 through Factory Records, the pioneering synth-pop classic was a hit at clubs across the UK that summer and became the top-selling 12-inch record of all time. Sumner – reportedly under the influence of psychedelics when he wrote the lyrics – has always remained ambiguous about the song’s meaning. And Peter Saville’s iconic cover for the record pushed the songs obfuscated messages further, creating a blank cover that ripped asunder allrules: no title or band name appear on the blank floppy disk, with a colour code strip down the side, an incisive statement about the machine age.
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