Portrait of the Soul: A Reading of Cover Design by Zuhayr Abu Shayib

Abstract

This is a critical, artistical reading of a number of book cover designs by the artist Zuhayr Abu Shayib
based on the extent of congruence of the artistic content of the frontispiece, and the content of the book. The text of  the book constitutes a body spread over its numerous pages, and the cover is both the concentrated spirit, and the intelligently reduced form that express the book’s contents. The cover - any cover- is, in fact, but an image that is  visually perceived, and which expresses that spirit which exemplifies the corpus of the book’s contents