Ambient 4 (On Land)
Brian Eno
British, born 1948
1982
A 12-inch vinyl record cover for Brian Eno’s 1982 album Ambient 4 (On Land), made to evoke a mapped, organic terrain that reflects the album’s immersive, place-based sound.
It looks like a magnified, halftone-printed map—muted ochres and blues stippled into contour-like, sinuous shapes with sparse, understated typography that leaves the image open and quiet.
As the cover for one of Eno’s landmark ambient records, it helped make tangible the idea that sound can create a sense of place, shaping how musicians and designers present ambient and experimental music.
Medium
12-inch vinyl record
Dimensions
cover: 12 1/4 × 12 3/8" (31.1 × 31.4 cm)
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Department
Credit
Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund
Accession
854.2013.94
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