Unearthly visions
Subtitle: approaches to science fiction and fantasy art
By: edited by Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and Kathleen Church Plummer.
Contributors: Westfahl, Gary.; Slusser, George Edgar.; Plummer, Kathleen Church, 1943-
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy,; no. 98
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Fantastic, The, in art.; Science fiction -- Illustrations.; Fantasy fiction -- Illustrations.
Genres: Illustrations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-156) and index.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Iconology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art; value: George Slusser; value: Part I. Approaches to Science Fiction Art; value: 2. Artists in Wonderland: Toward a True History of Science; value: Fiction Art; value: Gary Westfahl; value: 3. The Northrop Continuum: Science Fiction Illustration and the; value: Flying Wing Aircraft; value: Howard V. Hendrix; value: 4. Less Is More: Empty Space, Invisibility, and Modem Design; value: Kathleen Church Plummer; value: 5. "Getting It Right": A Reflection on Titans and Technology; value: Gregory Benford; value: 6. The Vision of Space: The Artist's View; value: Samuel H. Vasbinder; value: 7. Shapes from the Edge of Time: The Science Fiction Artwork; value: of Richard M. Powers; value: Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay; value: Part II. Approaches to Fantasy Art; value: 8. Notes on the Geography of Bad-and Good-Fantasy Art; value: John Clute; value: 9. Archaeological Fieldwork in the Paper Tiger Stacks Report #43:; value: A Short Happy History of Fantasy Art; value: John Grant; value: 10. Wisdom and Clemency: The Collaborations of Margaret Wise; value: Brown and Clement Hurd; value: Lynne Lundquist and Gary Westfahl; value: 11. "And What Happened After": How J. R. R. Tolkien Visualized,; value: and Other Artists Re-Visualized, the Denizens of Middle-Earth; value: Beatrix Karthaus-Hunt; value: 12. Conan the Oxymoron: The Civilized Savage of Robert E.; value: Howard and Frank Frazetta; value: David Hinckley; value: A Bibliography of Works of and about Science Fiction and; value: Fantasy Art; value: Index; value: About the Contributors.