Not what you might expect
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Just bought this book from Amazon and was pretty disappointed with it. With a title containing the words 'Best Fantasy and Science Fiction' I was expecting it to be crammed full of pictures of dragons, wizards, spaceships and aliens, basically your standard Fantasy & SF themes. There are a few pictures like this, but a lot of the pictures were pretty modern arty, more 'cut up corpses' than scenes from Star Wars.
OK, so maybe my ideas of Fantasy & SF art are a bit narrow minded, or just plain old fashioned, but if the author wanted to branch out a bit I feel it's some what misleading to use in the title 'Fantasy and Science Fiction', and then have a picture of a dragon on the front cover.
If you love modern art I'm sure you'll love this book, but if you're like me and want something a bit mainstream then you're better off avoiding it.
And just for the record... The artists in this collection are clearly not the 'Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Artists'. Boris Vallejo's work isn't included for a start!
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More Fantasy
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I have found this book very informative and "tipful" from the various artists that have contributed to Dick Jude's tome. More of this please - can't get enough of it!! And I'm an OAP!
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A must have book for ALL art students
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Some might be put off by the books title and many would be put off by the books cover, if they weren't aready Fantasy Art fans in general. However this is a surprising little gem of a book. Each Artist in the book gives in detail how they work and what inspires them. The writting is good and the imagery fantastic, I just wish this book had been around when I had been at college.
If you don't believe me, just check out the Artists on the web and then go get this book out the library, you wont be dissapointed.
Taken from the first paragraph ...
"Fantasy is a very open-ended term, and a word that means many things to many people. To much of the movie-going public, in this age of Tolkien and George Lucas, it immediatly brings the promise of pixies and princesses, wizards, dark lords and starships. To others, the term brings to mind the imaginative stimulation provoked by the unreal worlds of Brueghel, Bosch and the Surrealists. The sheer 'fuzziness' of the term also allows the pictures in this book to sit comfortly beside each other ..."
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