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  2. Cover art - Wikipedia

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    Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product, such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper , comic book, video game , music album , CD, videotape, DVD, or podcast. Cover art can include various things such as logos, symbols, images, colors, or anything that ...

  3. Simile - Wikipedia

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    A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).

  4. Book cover - Wikipedia

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    A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks , there are further alternatives and additions, such as dust jackets , ring-binding, and older forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional types of hand-binding .

  5. Substantial similarity - Wikipedia

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    A showing that features of the two works are not similar does not bar a finding of substantial similarity, if such similarity as does exist clears the de minimis threshold. [3] The substantial similarity standard is used for all kinds of copyrighted subject matter: books, photographs, plays, music, software, etc. It may also cross media, as in ...

  6. Simulacrum - Wikipedia

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    Literary critic Fredric Jameson offers photorealism as an example of artistic simulacrum, in which a painting is created by copying a photograph that is itself a copy of the real thing. [3] Other art forms that play with simulacra include trompe-l'œil , [ 4 ] pop art , Italian neorealism , and French New Wave .

  7. Book Art - Wikipedia

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    Fine press book art follows in the tradition of the book as precious object. Publishers like William Morris's Kelmscott Press, active as part of the British Arts and Crafts movement, was an important precursor to fine press book art. Examples of 20th century fine press book art include works published by Arron Press and The Gahenna Press. [5]

  8. Art & Architecture Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The initial core set of terms was derived from authority lists and the literature of art and architectural history; this core set was reviewed, approved and added to by an advisory team made up scholars from all relevant disciplines, including art and architectural historians, architects, librarians, visual resource curators, archivists, museum personnel, and specialists in thesaurus construction.

  9. Artist's book - Wikipedia

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    Abt, Jeffrey (1986) The Book Made Art: A Selection of Contemporary Artists' Books; Alexander, Charles, ed. (1995) Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts; Bernhard Cella(2012) Collecting Books: A selection of recent Art and Artists' Books produced in Austria, a YouTube Video that is part of the project.