Icon: A Retrospective by the Grand Master of Fantastic Art, Frank Frazetta
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1887424415 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Icon is a must for the serious Frazetta enthusiast. Frazetta's entire career is covered, from his earliest work on L'il Abner to his unused poster art for Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk Till Dawn; from his powerful interpretations of Robert E. The subject matter of Frazetta's work is familiar--brawny warriors, buxom enchantresses, and terrifying monsters--but he manages to infuse them with a rare charisma. This book is going to make Frank Frazetta fans very, very happy. LaSalle. His figures are sublime, at once naturalistic and hyper-real, and his vivid use of colors startles the eye again and again. Howard's Conan character to his whimsical Hollywood parodies. More than a hundred full color prints of Frazetta's most representative work are collected here in a single handsome edition, along with photographs of the artist and his studio, quotes
Hassan Patterson said WHAT A PLETHORA OF FANTASTIC ART!. Just when all us artists and fastasy fans thought we had seen the best compilation books on Frazetta's awesome art along comes ICON! Not only are pages printed with exquisite care but the text offers keen insight into the creation and inspiration of Frazetta's most tren. "Great Content, Bad Manufacturing" according to amster. For the content, I would definately give this book 5 stars. Unfortunatley, as soon as I opened up the book to look at it, the back binding came completely apart. I'm not going to go to the trouble of mailing it back to Amazon (and paying for the postage) so I glued it b. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" according to Richard A. Rossi. I read the reviews on this book and I thought it was something I just couldn't miss. Anyway, I like the book, but it's not an epic masterpiece in my humble opinion. I like Michael Parkes and Michael Wheelan better, but art is just an opinion. Try to catch a few Frazetta
His art continues to exert a tremendous influence over collectors of classic comic and sci-fi art, who pay record-setting auction prices for his original works. Frank Franzetta's paintings and illustrations have set the standard for fantasy artists for the past 50 years. Howard.. This lushly produced, large-format retrospective follows Frazetta's career from his apprenticeships at various publishers in the 1940s, to his 1950s breakthrough with the "Buck Rogers" and "Lil' Abner" series, to his powerfully erotic compositions for the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the famous "Conan" illustrations for Robert E