The small matter of a cover picture … and one that got away

Paul Klee, Castle and Sun 1928

The Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy series has a standard cover layout — for example, here’s the cover of my Gödel book in the series, with a rather anonymous bit of abstract artwork (not chosen by me). Some other books use more interesting illustrations — for example, here’s the cover Martin Peterson’s book on Decision Theory (this is part of The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (c. 1630) by Georges de la Tour).

Well, I’d wanted to use the Paul Klee’s Castle and Sun for the second edition of IFL which will appear in the same series. But sadly, CUP’s arrangement with Getty Images has changed, and that’s no longer an option. So I wondered about a Cézanne still life from Chicago. I had a print of another of his still lifes with apples on my wall as a logic student all those years ago, and rather liked the idea of — as it were — going full circle with another one. But my editor thinks it isn’t sufficiently “logical/technological”, and I can see the point.

But that leaves me at a bit of a loss where to go next. So suggestions of suitable cover art for an introductory logic text will be most welcome! It needs to be reasonably vibrant in colour to fit into the overall series design, of the same general shape as the two illustrated examples. and, ideally, freely available under a creative commons licence or similar. Any thoughts?

[By the way, I’ve only just discovered the website of the Chicago Art Institute: well worth a visit!]

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