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James Wolcott

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott

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James Wolcott is saying that the skill of designing book covers might disappear, similar to how album-cover design has declined. He believes that without these creative designs, the visual culture of the late 1900s would have become much poorer and less interesting.

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