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Paper Tiger offers collections of work by two late, great fantasy illustrators. The Art of Chesley Bonestell, by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durante, with a foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, showcases more than 300 drawings by the renowned architect and space artist, from illustrations of the chief engineer's plans for the Golden Gate Bridge (for the benefit of funders); to his favorite among his paintings, The Engulfed Cathedral A Fantasy; to his pre-space-travel lunar and Martian landscapes for magazines like Galaxy and Astounding.
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Unless you are an experienced astronaut, your conception of outer space has probably been influenced by Chesley Bonestell's superrealist paintings of other-planetary scenes, which caused a sensation when Life first published some of them in 1944. His vivid imaginings, which Miller aptly characterizes as "snapshots taken by a space-traveling National Geographic photographer," subsequently appeared in other magazines, were collected into books and exhibited at museums and planetariums, and were used as the visual basis for several 1950s science fiction movies. Although Bonestell's renown stems entirely from his space art, the book's biographical essay reveals that he honed his precise style doing architectural renderings early in the century and that he created matte paintings used as backgrounds in several major movies, including Citizen Kane. More than 300 of Bonestell's works appear in the book, and if fewer but larger reproductions might have shown his art to better advantage, the opportunity the book affords to rediscover this influential artist, whose success has been credited with stoking public support for the U.S. space program, outweighs that quibble. Gordon Flagg
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Paper Tiger offers collections of work by two late, great fantasy illustrators. The Art of Chesley Bonestell, by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durante, with a foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, showcases more than 300 drawings by the renowned architect and space artist, from illustrations of the chief engineer's plans for the Golden Gate Bridge (for the benefit of funders); to his favorite among his paintings, The Engulfed Cathedral A Fantasy; to his pre-space-travel lunar and Martian landscapes for magazines like Galaxy and Astounding.
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Unless you are an experienced astronaut, your conception of outer space has probably been influenced by Chesley Bonestell's superrealist paintings of other-planetary scenes, which caused a sensation when Life first published some of them in 1944. His vivid imaginings, which Miller aptly characterizes as "snapshots taken by a space-traveling National Geographic photographer," subsequently appeared in other magazines, were collected into books and exhibited at museums and planetariums, and were used as the visual basis for several 1950s science fiction movies. Although Bonestell's renown stems entirely from his space art, the book's biographical essay reveals that he honed his precise style doing architectural renderings early in the century and that he created matte paintings used as backgrounds in several major movies, including Citizen Kane. More than 300 of Bonestell's works appear in the book, and if fewer but larger reproductions might have shown his art to better advantage, the opportunity the book affords to rediscover this influential artist, whose success has been credited with stoking public support for the U.S. space program, outweighs that quibble. Gordon Flagg
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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- Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection by Frederick I. Ordway III on page 171, and Back Matter
- Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T. A. Heppenheimer in Back Matter
- Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space by De Witt Douglas Kilgore in Back Matter
- The Elements by Ron Miller in Back Matter
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