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Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s


  • Abrams (A&CB)
  • 400 color illustrations, Abrams
ISBN 9781419748691 | EN | HB
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Publisher Abrams (A&CB)
ISBN 9781419748691
Publication date June 2022
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 279 x 229 mm
Pages 224
Language(s) English ed.
Exhibition Abrams
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A visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi artIn the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science-fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles outrageous, and the cover art astounding. Over the course of the decade, a stable of talented painters, comic book artists, and designers produced thousands of the most eye-catching book covers to ever grace bookstore shelves (or spinner racks). Curiously, the pieces commissioned for these covers often had very little to do with the contents of the books they were selling, but by leaning heavily on psychedelic imagery, far-out landscapes, and trippy surrealism, the art was able to satisfy the same space-race fueled appetite for the big ideas and brave new worlds that sci-fi writers were boldly pushing forward.In Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Roweùwho has been curating, championing, and resurrecting the best and most obscure art that Æ70s sci-fi ha

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s

€39.50