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In The Garden Of Unearthly Delights: The Paintings of Josh Kirby

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:57:51 +0000

With his unbounded imagination, and taste for turning the laws of nature on their head, painter Josh Kirby has become a favorite of science fiction authors and a top-flight creator of wickedly clever film posters. This collection of his exuberant works is a sheer delight, featuring covers for the Savage Scorpio series; a selection from Kirby’s magnum opus Voyage of the Ayeguy, portraits of Hitchcock; and a film poster for Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Mark Harrisons Dreamlands

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:57:47 +0000

A compilation of fantasy landscapes by Mark Harrison. These include his book jackets for Sherri Tepper’s The Gate to Woman’s Country and Barry Hughart’s The Story of the Stone. Also included are his creations for writers as diverse as PD James and Isabel Allende.

Hard Curves: Fantasy Art of Julie Bell

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:57:42 +0000

Foreword by Hank Rose

Last Ship Home

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:57:22 +0000

His artwork has graced the timeless novels of Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World), J.R.R. Tolkien (The Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings), and Frank Herbert (Dune). But whether he’s illustrating a children’s classic like Alice in Wonderland, a magazine, an album sleeve, or a poster, Rodney Matthews’ images explode with fantasy and even joy. Few dark visions appear here; instead there are color, movement, and a host of eccentric, whimsical, and personality-filled figures to please the eye. The richly detailed paintings and preliminary sketches gathered here include The Hop, featuring an irresistible group of jazzy musical insects; the subtly glowing book cover for C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair; and the fanciful, slightly disturbing The Spud Snuzzler–which pictures a bizarre creature who shoots high-velocity potatoes through his trumpetlike nose. 136 pages (all in color), 10 3/4 x 11.

Views

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:57:13 +0000

Magnetic Storm: The Successor to Views

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:56:50 +0000

Author: Dean, Roger; Martyn Dean. Embracing designs for record sleeves, rock stages, movie projects, architecture, games consoles, landscapes, and books, Magnetic Storm features everything from innovative aircraft livery to the Yes logo. This new edition streamlines the original format and retains the combination of concept sketches and the finished works. Featuring revised design and typography, a new foreword, and a newly finished painting that Roger supplied especially for the front cover of this edition, Magnetic Storm showcases and celebrates the art that defined an era.

The Work Of Hipgnosis: Walk Away Rene

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:56:45 +0000

by Hipgnosis (Compiler), George Hardie (Compiler), Storm Thorgerson (Illustrator)

Classic Album Covers of the 60s: Over 200 of the Best Covers of the Decade

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:55:59 +0000

The hectic cultural and political upheavals occurring in the 1960s marked a divide between the relatively stable cultural environment of the previous decade and what is now regarded as the golden age of pop music and youth culture. Flourishing alternative cultures in the latter part of the decade laid many of the foundations of later trends and subcultures and this influence is nowhere more apparent than in record packaging, with classic graphic design and layouts reappearing again and again. This newly reformatted edition of Classic Album Covers of the 60s is a collection of over 200 of the very best (and in some cases worst) that designers had to offer throughout the decade. Representative designs from each period are illustrated in full color, taking the reader on a journey from the wholesome joviality of the Very Merry Macs and Muscle Beach Party, through stylish and understated jazz cover designs, to the best psychedelic designs of the late 60s such as the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper and the Incredible String Band’s The 5000 Spirits. The changing style of album cover design illustrated in Classic Album Covers of the 60s provides a fascinating reflection of changing cultural trends during a decade whose ideas and artistic expressions sought to break the prevailing rules and, so doing, laid the foundations for cover design today.

Mass: The Art Of John Harris

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:55:50 +0000

John Harris’s grand vision and style have won international acclaim—and a NASA commission, never before given to a British artist. Yet, this is the first collection of his paintings in print. The work is truly colossal, featuring the innovative, ultramodern structures that brought him fame and conveying the sheer size that edifices built by future-fantastic technology might attain, and the awesomeness, even the terror, of their presence.