Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss
Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss
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Foss's groundbreaking and distinctive science fiction art revolutionized paperback covers in the 1970s and 80s. Dramatically raising the bar for realism and invention, his trademark battle-weary spacecraft, dramatic alien landscapes and crumbling brutalist architecture irrevocably changed the aesthetic of science fiction art and cinema. Featuring work for books by Isaac Asimov, E. E. 'Doc' Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, A. E. Van Vogt and Philip K. Dick, and film design for Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick, this volume brings together many rare and classic images that have never been seen or reprinted before. The first comprehensive retrospective of Chris Foss's SF career. "Chris Foss' name has become pre-eminent among sf artists... He is in love with the monstrous, with angular momentum, with inertia-free projectiles and irresistable objects." -- Brian Aldiss " Foss'] creations are real machines, not just an artist's dreams. They combine the two elements so essential to science fiction: realism and a sense of wonder... A medieval goldsmith of future eons." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Author: Chris Foss
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.00lbs
Size: 12.40h x 9.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781848566989
Author: Chris Foss
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.00lbs
Size: 12.40h x 9.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781848566989
About the Author
Chris Foss's evocative science fiction book covers pioneered a much-imitated style featuring vast, colourful spaceships, machines and cities. He also illustrated the original black and white edition of The Joy of Sex. He produced the UK pb covers for Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, worked with H.R. Geiger on concepts for the unrealised Jodorowsky Dune movie and on Alien, as well as on Superman.