Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder - Softcover
Gathers paintings used to illustrate science fiction, fantasy, and horror covers for paperbacks and shares the artist's comments on each work
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From Publishers Weekly:
This award-winning illustrator finds that the literature of science fiction and fantasy "gives the artist the greatest opportunity for creative expression in the field of illustration today." In this collection of Whelan's cover illustrations for some 50 booksnotably all published by Del ReyIsaac Asimov's robots, Edgar Rice Burroughs's martians, H. P. Lovecraft's skeletons, Anne McCaffrey's flying dragons and the Star Child of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two are rendered in brilliant hues and careful detail. Unfortunately, Whelan's descriptive talents do not extend to his writing, which is artless. Furthermore, since he assumes, apparently, that readers are intimately familiar with the books in question, his decision to give a white lizard six legs rather than eight in one cover painting and his explanation that red lilies represent the Earth Goddess, regeneration and immortality in another picture will be meaningful only to connoisseurs of the genre.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0345326806
- ISBN 13 9780345326805
- BindingPaperback
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