Science Fiction Art book (with profound writing) from the '80s I think

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Was it oversize/coffee table, or normal hardcover book sized? Remember the cover?

[David]

Are you thinking of Alien Landscapes?

[stormhawk]

Mind Fields
art by Jack Yerkes, words by Harlan Ellison. perhaps?

[Kris]

Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, The Fiction of Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison for Stormhawk's suggestion.

[Banjomike]

Patrick Woodroffe has a whole bunch of sci-fi/art/mythology books

This jumbo link shows some images from one of them (Pentateuch of the Cosmogony) which also has large amounts of 'profound' text.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?lr=&a...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Bluestockingirl (hippie~nerd), are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[SamSpayedPI]

Maybe Always Coming Home or something else by Ursula K. Le Guin? Although there's not so much art as poetry and stories.

[SamSpayedPI]

Oh, well. Enjoy!

[Kris]

A review on Librarything.com appears to show four illustrations from Alien Landscapes by Robert Holdstock - David's suggestion

https://www.librarything.com/topic/26...

[Kate]

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[Cassandra]

Can you tell us anything about the artwork?

Was it landscapes? SciFi vehicles? Alien creatures? Space Marines?

Photorealistic? Stylized?

A dark and muted palette or lots of colors?

Was it a lot of works by a single artist or a collection of works by different artists?

Remember, we know nothing about this book except what you tell us. Any detail at all could be the one that leads to an identification.

[Kate]

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[Kate]

It's aliens and not landscapes or ships, but this book is very entertaining and ticks some of your memories... Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature It was published in 1987, though.

Another possibility is Spacecraft 2100 to 2200 AD, which was published in 1978.

[Cassandra]

If you could tell us some specific details about - say - the three most memorable pictures, perhaps we could identify one of them. If we could identify at least one of the artists who provided artwork for the book, that would go a long way to finding this particular collection.

For example, Hajime Sorayama is well known for NSFW pictures of cyborg females. Please don't look unless you're old enough.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

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