The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate - Hardcover

Di Fate, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855859491 ISBN 13: 9781855859494

Publisher: Paper Tiger, 2002

Synopsis

From images in black and white to inventive gadgets, the golden age of SF film, and pictures from the flying saucer era, these paintings capture the range of Hugo Award-winner Vincent Di Fate’s achievements. More than 100 color artworks complement a vigorous, vivacious text by the artist himself. Space chases, futuristic supermen, machines born of dreams or nightmares, and more: each illustration is a voyage of the imagination.

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About the Author

Winner of the Hugo Award, the Frank R. Paul Award, and the Skylark Award for Imaginative Fiction, Vincent Di Fate's works are in the permanent collection of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian. He was president of the Society of Illustrators and is a professor of sci-fi illustration at New York's prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology.

Reviews

In a career spanning some four decades, Vincent Di Fate has painted countless color-drenched scenes of space monsters, sea creatures, alien landscapes and futuristic technologies. In The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate, he reproduces over a hundred of his paintings in a slick coffee-table volume for any fan of the fantastical, dividing them into categories (Gadget Man, Future Real, Fantasy and Horror and Fantasy Imagined) and accompanying them with highly readable essays on UFOs, the Golden Age of SF movies and more.
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Di Fate's Infinite Worlds (1997) may be the best historical-biographical showcase of sf art ever, but Di Fate on his work and the interests that influenced it is better reading. Besides displaying some 100 of his pen-and-ink scratchboard drawings and marvelously colorful acrylics, this album includes three well-written, congenial, and absorbing essays. The first is autobiographical and centered on his career rather than his private life, though the latter impinged uncomfortably on the former at the very beginning, when his wife, diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, was given mere months to live; fortunately, he thrived, and she survived. The second is a celebration of sci-fi--that is, science fiction movies, especially those of the '50s and '60s--which he loved then, still loves, implies we might at least enjoy, even now, and distinguishes from sf, the literary genre, which he says is invariably more intelligent than sci-fi. The final essay is about his longtime, career-influencing interest in UFOs, especially the wave of sensational late 1940s sightings. Ray Olson
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Edition details

• Publisher: Paper Tiger
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855859491
• ISBN 13: 9781855859494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112