The latest edition of the only annual anthology of fantasy art includes 250 illustrations spanning the globe and representing artists throughout this exciting genre, including such notables as James Gurney, Anita Kunz, and Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Original. 20,000 first printing.
i remember first coming across the Spectrum art books in my twenties, when i would buy books simply for their dust jackets and hope the story inside wasn't too awful... the art in these books is amazing, creative, imaginary, dreamlike, fascinating, and ultimately full of life and the love of wonder and wondrous things... i would own them all if i could... extremely highly recommended...
This is such a spectacular compilation in high quality printing of the vanguard of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative art. After gazing on all the works presented, the reader is instilled with a sense of wonder, as if they have been touched with a drop of magic. So many images, the paintings, the illustrations, the brilliant ideas, will stay with the reader. Go seek this if you are a science fiction and fantasy reader--it's the visual counterpart to the fiction, and the worlds of the imagination that cannot be depicted in mere photographs. This book will give a permanent sense of wonder. One of the best art books I've ever encountered! Wow.
If you love fantasy and SiFi art of any type; paintings, drawings, sculpture, cartoons then this is the book for you. Fantastic selection of the years art. You can't help but find something you like inside. Highly recommended