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Pink Floyd's "Division Bell - Metal Heads" Limited Edition Print - Special Order
| Please note - This is a special-order item that will be shipped from the publisher in the UK. As such, it does not qualify for any RockPoP Gallery promotional incentive programs (sorry about that!).
Limited edition (295), 12-color silkscreen fine art print made from the original artwork, printed on Somerset tub sized 310gsm stock. Overall print size 33"h x 25½"w, Image size 19" x 19".
Produced by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell (Hipgnosis) Design - Storm Thorgerson; Illustration - George Hardie. Signed and numbered by Storm Thorgerson
Printed by Coriander Studios, London
Shipped unmatted/unframed
The "Metal Heads" seen on this cover were real metal statues made especially for this cover (they weighed a ton!). They were taken by flat-bed truck to a field near Cambridge, England (the Floyd’s home town), close to Ely Cathedral, on the edge of the Fens River.
The sculptures present the idea of two heads in profile, facing or talking to each other, making up a third face, facing you (look - it's pretty cool). The metal heads were devised by Keith Breeden and built by John Robertson, to the height of a double-decker bus - the size of a small house - like the Aku Aku totems on Easter Island.
Per Storm Thorgerson in the book 'Mind Over Matter - the Images Of Pink Floyd" - "The single eyes of the two faces looking at each other become the two eyes of a single face looking at you, the viewer. It was intended that the viewer should not see both at the same time. One saw the single face or the two profiles. If one saw both it was alternating, like an optical illusion, which was even better because it meant that the viewer was interacting, or communicating, with the image directly, viscerally."
"The third or facing head, is implied not defined, more ghostly than real, referring to Roger and Syd, the departed ghosts of Pink Floyd, a theme of the album. The setting near Cambridge was especially nostalgic, echoing yet another theme of the album, whilst the communicating heads themselves was representative of the third major theme."
Released in 1994, the "Division Bell" record was the 2nd after Roger Waters had left the band and found the remaining three members not so subtle with their feelings about his leadership role ("What Do You Want From Me?")... | | | |
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