Tag: James Avati
Tragic Ground (1958)
A Murder In Paradise
Place Called Estherville (1957)
A Lamp For Nightfall (1954)
The Fountainhead
Love Trap
Love Knows No Barriers (Original Title: God Is For White Folks)
Louisville Saturday
Tea and Sympathy
The Famous Story Of A Student Who Needed Love — And The Married Woman Who Dared To Give It To Him
The Fascinator
The Happy Thieves (Original Title: The Oldest Confession)
The wild witty novel about the adventures of a master thief.
For this cover the concept was to show two art thieves, a man and a woman, in the process of stealing a painting. The painting would be shown in a forced perspective which allowed one side of the painting to be lined up exactly to the side of the cover. To achieve this effect, Avati first made a prop painting (Diego Velasquez ‘The toilet of Venus, ca 1650), stood it on the floor and photographed it in the proper perspective. Jane and a friend, Bill Convery, posed as the criminal couple. For years afterward, the prop painting remained hanging on Jim’s studio wall.
— The Paperback Art of James Avati
