![]() ![]() The wealth of artwork and information here must be applauded. ![]() Among the many titles: The Art of Decadence: European Fantasy Art of the Fin-de-Siecle, Avant-Garde Graphics in Russia, The World of Mucha, and William Morris: Father of Modern Design and Pattern. The Japanese text appears on colorful pages filled with steampunk motifs, with the English translation set at the bottom of the page in a smaller typeface.Įditor Hiroshi Unno has helmed many retrospective art books for PIE International featuring artwork from 19th- and early 20th-century artists. The engravings, illustrations, paintings, comic strips, and book covers are reproduced here to good effect, although some of the elaborate gold-bedecked covers for the works of Jules Verne produced by the publisher Hetzel in the early years of the 20th-century misfire. This crammed-full collection links modern fantastic art to ancestors in the 19th-century schools of Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelite, Art Nouveau, and the early 20th-century movements of Art Deco, Comics Art, and popular illustration. Turner, Arthur Rackham, Albert Robida, and J.J. Among them are Gustave Dore, Honore Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Ilya Repin, Caspar David Friedrich, Eugène Delacroix, William Heath Robinson, Richard Dadd, Winsor McCay, Charles Robinson, Théodore Géricault, William Blake, J.M. However, most of the art is accessible and fascinating in its variety.įine artists mix with illustrators and genre artists. “Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway” suffers from being split across two pages. Another problem emerges with two-page spreads: J.M.W. Despite the matte paper, the color reproduction is excellent for the most part, and most of the out-of-copyright art is featured at good size, although some of the details suffer in images such as “Little Nemo in Slumberland”. The unusual format – softcover with dust jacket presentation – is standard for this Japanese publisher and does not diminish the book’s good-to-excellent production values. It is also, for a softcover book, a bit pricey at $49.95. At 360 pages, this book is jam-packed with artwork. At the very least, you’ll want to make a list of some of the artists featured here to investigate further. ![]() It’s a pleasure to flip through, dip into, and use for inspiration. The Art of Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Steampunk is a delightful book crammed full of beautiful images and surprising artistic connections that will take you on an art history journey through the precursors of fantasy, sci-fi, and steampunk art. If you buy from the links, I get a little commission that helps me get more books to feature.Ī | Amazon.ca | .uk | | | | Amazon.es | .The Art of Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Steampunk, Hiroshi Unno ( PIE 9784756249753, $49.95, 360pp, tp) June 2018. Substrata: Open World Dark Fantasy is available at Amazon ( US | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT | ES | JP) Udon mentioned that proceeds from the book will go to the charity organization Gamers For Good. Other similar books that come to my mind would be the artbooks from Massive Black, Feng Zhu but SUBSTRATA represents better value for money because it's more affordable, there are more pages (240 in all) and the art is great. The only text you'll see are the artists' names and their website. There's no narrative, and there's no fictitious game that these artists are designing for. In some way, SUBSTRATA feels like a portfolio book for these artists, a random display of top notch art. The ideas and designs are gorgeous, which makes it a nice book to flip through occasionally for inspiration.Īll the works are very detailed and look amazing. There are sketches, many full-colour full-page illustrations, and even 3D models. There are lots of character and creature designs, and to a lesser extent art for environments and other miscellaneous subjects. Hats off to illustrator Paul Richards for putting in the serious effort of curating so much artworks and getting all these artists together. There are 80 artists featured in this book and that includes artists from other top game studios. ![]() Vigil Games was closed down in 2013 and there was this idea of getting reconnecting with the artists to come up with an artbook. This book was inspired by The Art of Darksiders II and the artists at Vigil Games, the company that produced Darksiders. ![]()
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