Year: 2001
Publisher: Paper Tiger
ISBN: 1855858843
Content: 256 pages with colour illustrations
I was very surprised to learn just the other day that this book goes for about 300 Dollars on Amazon despite being published just a few years ago. But then again, I am not THAT surprised.
Chesley Bonestell is the pioneer of space art, and above all, he is damn good at it! If you look at the images he created just out of his sheer imagination from the surface of basically every single rock in our solar system (and sometimes not only there), you wonder whether this guy have had a personal spaceship to bring him for short painting trips to the moon or anywhere else. His images are unbelievably vivid, and I more than once preferred these visions over the pale images shot by some distant probes sent along the way a long time ago by NASA. If you take a look at the title image of this huge art collection, you literally "get the picture"...
There are other books by him, dating back to the Fifties, mostly popular astronomy books or magazines, for the young (at hearts)... Yet this is the first and up til now only edition with the biggest available showcase of his body of work, profoundly connotated by Ron Miller, a space artist himself.
If you want one book on Space Art, this is IT! See more of Chesley´s art on this page.
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