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Title: Spectrum 10: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Spectrum, No 10) by Arnie Fenner, Cathy Fenner ISBN: 1-887424-72-5 Publisher: Underwood Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Drop Dead Gorgeous!
Comment: Sci-Fi and Fantasy artists have always seemed like illustration's poor step-children, often ignored (and sometimes sneered at) while the historical and Western painters wore the mantel of respectability. Thank goodness Spectrum came along to point out to the naysayers that Art is Art and that the practitioners of "fantastic" art are as gifted as anyone working today (if not better).
Spectrum 10 is chocked-full of beautiful and imaginative work by veterans and fresh faces alike. Personal favorites include the previously unpublished gallery paintings by jillion-times-Hugo-winner Michael Whelan, the Expressionist-flavored space ships by John Berkey, the monsterously proportioned toy robots by Eric Joyner, and the fantasy scenarios of Paul Bonner. There's art for films, paintings for books, sculptures (which I personally enjoy seeing), and work from comics; serious, mature pieces followed by wonderfully whacky and whimisical images. There's really something for everyone. It's fun to go through the book and compare the judges' selection of award-winners in each category with what *I* think should have won.
And thank goodness someone has finally acknowledged Michael Kaluta (#10's Grand Master Award recipient) as one of the most worthwhile illustrators working today. Kudos to the Spectrum Board!
About the only downsides are the occasional typos and several pages with cramped lay-outs, but all-in-all a must-have book for anyone with an imagination--and at a bargain price at that!
Rating: 4
Summary: AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES (That's a GOOD thing!).
Comment: I've been picking up the Spectrum collections since # 7 and I've notice an improvement both in quality and variety in the artwork presented.Within its 176 pages you'll find 300 plus reproductions. The book is divided into seven sections displaying work from advertising, book, comics, dimensional, editorial, institutional and unpublished sources.A cornucopia of styles and approaches grace SPECTRUM 10's pages. From the photo(sur)realism of Paul Bonner's watercolors portraying Orks and Minotaur to Kinuko Y. Craft's Pre-Raphaelite inspired BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to Brom's patented creepy/sexy gothic leather bound babes to Peter d Seve's delightful character studies in pencil for Disney Studios' Treasure Planet you'll find an eclectic cross section of SF/fantasy/horror illustrators working today. Jon joster (winner of the Gold Award in the comics' category) is my favorite here with his retro robots and expressive compositions.Only one thing irritates me in this book, and the only reason I gave 4 stars out of 5: these are the resin statuettes of comic book characters found in the "dimensional" section. These kitsch saturated figurines have no other purpose than to serve as "must haves" for pathological collectoholics and slightly mar this book for me. (Sorry about the soapbox spiel-guess I'm now assured of getting a good number of "I did not find this review helpful" votes.)Dispite this one caveat I highly recommend this beautiful book to anyone who appreciates fine illustration.
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Title: Spectrum 1: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner, Arnie Fenner, Lee Stuart, Cathy Burnett ISBN: 1887424458 Publisher: Underwood Books Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner, Arnie Fenner ISBN: 1887424660 Publisher: Underwood Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: More Fantasy Art Masters: The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Artists Show How They Work by Dick Jude ISBN: 0823031276 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Spectrum 8: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Arnie Fenner, Cathy Fenner ISBN: 1887424601 Publisher: Underwood Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, Pamela D. Scoville ISBN: 1904332102 Publisher: Artist's and Photographer's Press Ltd. Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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