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Summary: How to improve on the original
Review: My last review was much too long. Here's a new take: how do you improve on something as beautiful as the original Icon? Simple. Add more art, and more pages. Fill the pages from one corner to the next with more art. Put it in a sturdy softcover binding and charge less for more. If you don't know who Frank Frazetta is this is your chance to discover a master artist. Add some dazzling images and powerful designs to your bookshelf by buying this book. His work is provacative, emotional, and has an uncompromising impact on those who view it. From the primal strength of his Conan paintings to the erotic beauty of his defiant women, it's the vitality of his art that makes it distinctive.Discover Frank Frazetta with this new book.Rediscover his incredible range if all you have are his old books from the seventies.
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Summary: A great collection of Frazetta artwork
Review: The quality of this book is very good. It includes many large and high-resolution prints of Frazetta's imaginative and powerful paintings. Most of the paintings are also discussed along with images of their precursors or roughs. It also includes drawings and illustrations from Frank's early days and discusses his training. Other books discuss his personality and life in more detail.
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Summary: Simply The Best
Review: This book should be in every art lover's collection. Every Frazetta fan should possess this book. It is the epitome of perfection. Frazetta is the master, and this proves it.
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Summary: Beautiful Reproductions of Paintings + insightful text!
Review: This is "Icon," which is book one of three, all of which are now available. Even though all three discuss all eras of his life and career, this Icon book is probably the best one to start with, since it shows many of the works that made him famous.This book has a bunch of the Edgar Rice Burroughs paperback cover paintings, (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, etc.), and Conan the Barbarian covers, too. The text explains how the Frazetta paintings on the paperback book covers were responsible for outrageously high sales of these paperback books. This is probably what Frazetta is most famous for, these paperback covers that started a trend of sci-fi fantasy paintings that were as brutally dangerous as they are beautifully painted. This book discusses Frank Frazetta's early childhood art, how he got into illustrating and comic books, comic strip work ghosting Lil' Abner for Al Capp, being wooed by Hollywood stars, doing movie posters during different decades, etc. All three books discuss the same eras, but with different details and commentary from different friends and associates. There are also plenty of insightful quotes from Frank in all three books, which explain his outlook concerning his artwork and doing business with his artwork over 5 decades. I remember Frazetta best for his Molly Hatchet album covers, which are both in this "Icon" book, but they are credited to the original paperback covers that they were first commisioned for, so Molly Hatchet is not mentioned. To me, a kid in the 1970's, Frazetta was recognized as an expert in his own category, but his work was not common to come across. So I am very pleased with all three books in this trilogy, that finally brings most of his career together in three nicely made art books. All three of these books are very informative and nice additions to any fans personal library. If you like Frazetta at all, then you should be quite pleased with "Icon," "Legacy," and "Testament."
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Summary: Beautiful Reproductions of Paintings + insightful text!
Review: This is "Icon," which is book one of three, all of which are now available. Even though all three discuss all eras of his life and career, this Icon book is probably the best one to start with, since it shows many of the works that made him famous. This book has a bunch of the Edgar Rice Burroughs paperback cover paintings, (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, etc.), and Conan the Barbarian covers, too. The text explains how the Frazetta paintings on the paperback book covers were responsible for outrageously high sales of these paperback books. This is probably what Frazetta is most famous for, these paperback covers that started a trend of sci-fi fantasy paintings that were as brutally dangerous as they are beautifully painted. This book discusses Frank Frazetta's early childhood art, how he got into illustrating and comic books, comic strip work ghosting Lil' Abner for Al Capp, being wooed by Hollywood stars, doing movie posters during different decades, etc. All three books discuss the same eras, but with different details and commentary from different friends and associates. There are also plenty of insightful quotes from Frank in all three books, which explain his outlook concerning his artwork and doing business with his artwork over 5 decades. I remember Frazetta best for his Molly Hatchet album covers, which are both in this "Icon" book, but they are credited to the original paperback covers that they were first commisioned for, so Molly Hatchet is not mentioned. To me, a kid in the 1970's, Frazetta was recognized as an expert in his own category, but his work was not common to come across. So I am very pleased with all three books in this trilogy, that finally brings most of his career together in three nicely made art books. All three of these books are very informative and nice additions to any fans personal library. If you like Frazetta at all, then you should be quite pleased with "Icon," "Legacy," and "Testament."
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Summary: Dinosaurs! Vampires!! Babes!!! Gorillas!!!!
Review: This is a terrific collection of the guy who invented this type of stuff. Flip through these pages and you can't deny that the man draws and paints like no other, no matter how many others draw and paint like him. The glimpses of his early comic work (especially as Al Capp's assistant) are always a treat. The selections from Frazetta's career as a fantasy artist are intelligently chosen and are presented in a meaningful context, and the terrific layout of the book makes it especially pleasant to experience. There are gorillas, dinosaurs, vampires, and female curves aplenty here in Frazetta's matchless palette. Sketches by Frazetta, included throughout, are particularly impressive and add to his already rich credentials as a pure draftsman. The commentary is great. Best of all, this too-brief volume is only one in a very welcome series.
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Summary: Dinosaurs! Vampires!! Babes!!! Gorillas!!!!
Review: This is a terrific collection of the guy who invented this type of stuff. Flip through these pages and you can't deny that the man draws and paints like no other, no matter how many others draw and paint like him. The glimpses of his early comic work (especially as Al Capp's assistant) are always a treat. The selections from Frazetta's career as a fantasy artist are intelligently chosen and are presented in a meaningful context, and the terrific layout of the book makes it especially pleasant to experience. There are gorillas, dinosaurs, vampires, and female curves aplenty here in Frazetta's matchless palette. Sketches by Frazetta, included throughout, are particularly impressive and add to his already rich credentials as a pure draftsman. The commentary is great. Best of all, this too-brief volume is only one in a very welcome series.
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Summary: Frazetta and the Fenners
Review: Wow! Another great Frazetta retrospective by the Fenners! As a young painter my own studio was wall to wall Frazzetta posters. As a college professor and painter of large scale, figure art, my studio is still wall to wall Frazetta art. This book is a feast for the soul, the eyes and the heart. Frank is at or near retirement and his work will be greatly missed but books like this will keep his art alive with younger generations. He is the greatest figure artist, of rich, dark powerful actionand color in my lifetime and certainly measures up to the greatest painters of the past several hundred years, no one is better at the figure or composition. Of the film "Excaliber" by Boorman, it was said, "A Frazetta painting come to life!". God must still value mankind by honoring us with such a painter in this era.
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Summary: Frazetta and the Fenners
Review: Wow! Another great Frazetta retrospective by the Fenners! As a young painter my own studio was wall to wall Frazzetta posters. As a college professor and painter of large scale, figure art, my studio is still wall to wall Frazetta art. This book is a feast for the soul, the eyes and the heart. Frank is at or near retirement and his work will be greatly missed but books like this will keep his art alive with younger generations. He is the greatest figure artist, of rich, dark powerful actionand color in my lifetime and certainly measures up to the greatest painters of the past several hundred years, no one is better at the figure or composition. Of the film "Excaliber" by Boorman, it was said, "A Frazetta painting come to life!". God must still value mankind by honoring us with such a painter in this era.
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