The Fantastic Art of Beksinski (Masters of Fantastic Art S.) [Hardcover]

Zdzilsaw Beksinski (Author)

Book Description

Series: Masters of Fantastic Art S. | Publication Date: December 8, 1998

The beautiful and bizarre imagery of this popular Polish surrealist is now collected in an elegantly designed treasury. 60 color illustrations. 10 photos.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: Morpheus International; 1St Edition edition (December 8, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188339838X
• ISBN-13: 978-1883398385
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, August 3, 2004

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Annaleise Ferreira "Acolyte of Cthulhu" (Marina, California ,United States) - See all my reviews
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People have compared Bekinski's work to Giger's but I really don't think they're that similar, other than a theme of organic buildings and alien landscapes. Giger's work is all about sex and machinery, but Bekinski isn't interested in making any kind of statement, he's purely interested in the imagery, which is why I think I relate to him more than any other professional artist. Anyway, about his work, it's stunning. It takes you out of this time and place and into a far past or future of old dry dead things which are somehow still alive and aware. It's morbid and it's beautiful and I've found it to be extremely inspiring.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My latest inspiration., February 14, 2004

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Arsen Azizyan (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fantastic Art of Beksinski (Masters of Fantastic Art S.) (Hardcover)

I'm not about to start making comparisons to other artists of similar subject matter (like H.R. Giger, whose work was one of my first inspirations), but since seeing my first Bekinski painting literally yesterday, I have been enthralled by his unparalleled mastery of the dark. You get a few glimpses of world War II in his works - just enough to perhaps guess as to what served as his inspiration - but his work goes much, much further than simply portraying the horrors of war. From trees of desiccated limbs, covered in age-old spiderwebs, to similarly skeletal monolithic constructions, foreboding in their mysterious ultra-human purpose, there is a merging of dead life and non-living objects, so that often one hardly knows if one is looking at a rock that has been given the shape of a bone or a dried tree limb, or rather a bone that has degenerated to such an extent that it has come to resemble a piece of wind-blown slate.

The artist himself has often reiterated that his paintings are not references, and that reading meaning into them is a waste of time; indeed, all of his works bear a single name - "Untitled." But to me, this means simply that there are all but infinite layers of meaning in Bekinski's crazed paintings - ones that invite the onlookers to define the art for themselves, and by doing so, lose themselves in the twilight of the infinite corridors of Zdzislaw Bekinski's imagination.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very , Very Nice, May 30, 2007

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This is a great collection of an undescribable artists' works . Granted there were some pieces of his that weren t included , but alas - you can only fit so much into one volume . Besides , when you re an eccentric fan , you will seek out obscure works and will not likely find them afterwards . Regardless of such things , I recomend this collection to every fan of fantastic artwork . Personally , before discovering Mr. Beksinski's works I was more interested in pieces by Daniel Ouellette , and H.R. Giger . Both of which are great artists , but their work was still missing something , and I found that something through Zdzislaw Beksinski's work . I hope you will be able to as well .