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'Mock album covers' of Gary Cannone: conceptual art meets heavy metal

Los Angeles artist Gary Cannone supplants images of iconic art pieces into classic album covers to create “mock album covers,” as he calls them.

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KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Aug 8, 2019 • 1 min read

Los Angeles artist Gary Cannone supplants images of iconic art pieces into classic album covers to create “mock album covers,” as he calls them. For example, he took elements of Metallica’s “Ride The Lightning” album cover and put them over a photo of Walter De Maria’s “Lightning Field,” calling the new piece “Ride the Lightning Field.”

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    Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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