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The Chesley Awards: A Retrospective by
John Grant and Elizabeth Humphrey with Pamela D. Scoville check out website: www.aappl.com and www.asfa-art.com
It has over 56 well-known artists here, many of them showing more than one piece. I don't know what they've done to their paper stock, but using the Frank Frazetta pictures as an example and no disrespect to other publishers in the past 25 years, the colours have a more vibrant than gothic feel to them.
The ASFA Awards began in 1985 to celebrate the best of SF and fantasy art on an annual basis. In 1986, they were renamed the Chesley Awards in honour of astronomical artist Chesley Bonestell. Not, I hasten to add, cos he depicted SF but as a mark of respect to the excellence that other artists have strived to do with their own artwork. Mind you, this reviewer does wonder what'll happen if ever there's an award scheme for astronomical artwork and what they'll name it. This book travels through the winners from 1985 to 2002, showing not only paintings and the odd black and white illustration, but also the sculptures as well. What will also be of use amongst the biographical details is a list of websites for many of these artists as well as noting artbooks of their own work so you have a useful reference book as well Picking out favourite pieces of artwork from this book would be a hard challenge. Many of the paintings shown have illustrated book covers that you probably already own. Seeing them without the cover script does show them in a different perspective and I suspect why so many of us both these books. I suspect some of you, like me, will wonder at some of the selections though. Not because the art isn't any good, far from it, but why some artists came up as top for several years and some notable artists seem to be missing. It's a shame really that details on how the Award winners were selected wasn't included with this book if for not other reason than to give some insight on the voting process. If that's the only thing I can be critical about regarding this book then there's not to much to worry about. In many respects, this is a history of SF/fantasy art from the past 17 years and if the sales of this book warrant it, especially as AAPPS are offering a nice discount at the moment, I'd love to see an annual book featuring winners and runners-up as I think they would have a runaway success. GF Willmetts Note from Stephen & Geoff: The publishers are offering a discount when you buy direct. The discount for the Chesley book is £22.50 including p&p (rrp £30.00) so a good discount for all. Click here for discount.
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OTHER REVIEWS - April 2004
Other reviews: April 2004 Lucifer's Dragon by Jon Courtenay Grimwood The Companions by Sherri S. Tepper Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford Sunshine Patriots by Bill Campbell The Skies Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton The Adam Strange Archives Volume 1 Wit'ch Gate: Immortal Magic - Infinite Vengence by James Clemens Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong Deep Space Nine: Rising Son by SD Perry Absolution Gap (The Inhibitors series book 3) by Alastair Reynolds Alchymist (The Well Of Echoes book 3) by Ian Irvine Hal Spacejock: Second Course by Simon Haynes Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris The Dancers At The End Of Time by Michael Moorcock The Crow: The Story Behind The Film by Bridget Baiss British Summertime by Paul Cornell The Year Of Our War by Steph Swainson April 2004: Hardback to Paperbacks The Chesley Awards: A Retrospective by John Grant and Elizabeth Humphrey with Pamela D. Scoville
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We
were a little late receiving a copy of this book, coming out last
Autumn, but the wait was well worth it. If you ever wanted to have
an art gallery of SF and fantasy art awards winners in one book,
then all you really need is this book.
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