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Availability:In StockContributor:Chris Foss, Rian Hughes (Designed by)Publish date:2011-09-06Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Titan Books (UK)ISBN-13:9781848566989ISBN-10:1848566980UPC:9781848566989Book Category:Design, ArtBook Subcategory:Graphic Arts, Individual Artists, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Illustration, Artists' Books, Science Fiction & FantasySize:12.40 x 9.70 x 1.10 inchesWeight:4.0036Product ID:SCE2237JA4
Foss's groundbreaking and distinctive science fiction art revolutionized paperback covers in the 1970s and 80s. Dramatically raising the bar for realism and invention, his trademark battle-weary spacecraft, dramatic alien landscapes and crumbling brutalist architecture irrevocably changed the aesthetic of science fiction art and cinema.

Featuring work for books by Isaac Asimov, E. E. 'Doc' Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, A. E. Van Vogt and Philip K. Dick, and film design for Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick, this volume brings together many rare and classic images that have never been seen or reprinted before. The first comprehensive retrospective of Chris Foss's SF career.

"Chris Foss' name has become pre-eminent among sf artists... He is in love with the monstrous, with angular momentum, with inertia-free projectiles and irresistable objects." -- Brian Aldiss

" Foss'] creations are real machines, not just an artist's dreams. They combine the two elements so essential to science fiction: realism and a sense of wonder... A medieval goldsmith of future eons." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Language:EnglishPublisher:Titan Books (UK)ISBN-13:9781848566989ISBN-10:1848566980UPC:9781848566989Book Category:Design, ArtBook Subcategory:Graphic Arts, Individual Artists, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Illustration, Artists' Books, Science Fiction & FantasySize:12.40 x 9.70 x 1.10 inchesWeight:4.0036Product ID:SCE2237JA4
Chris Foss's evocative science fiction book covers pioneered a much-imitated style featuring vast, colourful spaceships, machines and cities. He also illustrated the original black and white edition of The Joy of Sex. He produced the UK pb covers for Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, worked with H.R. Geiger on concepts for the unrealised Jodorowsky Dune movie and on Alien, as well as on Superman.

Rian Hughes is an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, font designer and comics artist, noted for his work on 2000AD, and Dan Dare. His illustration work is highly distinctive, wearing its design influences on its sleeve. Clients include Virgin Airways, Penguin Books, DC Comics (for whom he has designed numerous logos), Eurostar, the BBC and a range of magazines and newspapers. He is the editor and designer of several books including Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s and the recently released Cult-ure.

"One of the most successful and prolific designer/illustrators of the past 20 years." -- Roger Sabin, Eye magazine
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)

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