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Spectrum #3
Spectrum III: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
Every year artists around the globe create thousands of fantasy-themed works for book jackets and advertising, for comics and greeting cards, for posters and game manuals and magazines and collectible figures. Spectrum 3 is a full-color selection of the best.
Chosen by a blue-ribbon jury of artists and designers, Spectrum features over 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by more than 100 of today’s most gifted creators of fantastic art. Also included in this landmark collection are the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists’ Chesley Award-winners, an insightful illustrated look back at the previous year’s highlights, and Spectrum’s recognition of influential illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz with the second Grand Master Award.
If you want to experience new worlds and altered realities, you’ll need a guidebook.
This is it.
Chosen by a blue-ribbon jury of artists and designers, Spectrum features over 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by more than 100 of today’s most gifted creators of fantastic art. Also included in this landmark collection are the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists’ Chesley Award-winners, an insightful illustrated look back at the previous year’s highlights, and Spectrum’s recognition of influential illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz with the second Grand Master Award.
If you want to experience new worlds and altered realities, you’ll need a guidebook.
This is it.
144 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1996
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March 1, 2019
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...
July 29, 2024
Of course, the large art pieces are fantastic. I don't appreciate that most of the reproductions are small. The written introduction is weak.
October 27, 2008
I have the paperback. The hardback is out of print and much to deep for my pockets. Amazon had it listed for +$300 at one time. Thankfully the publishers had mercy on us and reprinted this fine art book in paperback!
September 27, 2015
If you love fantasy and SiFi art of any area 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
May 29, 2017
Picked this up at the big sale at HalfPrice Books
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