Frank Kelly Freas As He Sees It

by Powers, Tim; Freas, Frank Kelly; Brodian Freas, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781855858480
• ISBN10: 1855858487
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-31
• Publisher: Paper Tiger

Summary

With 10 Hugos as Best Professional Artist and countless other awards, Kelly Freas is the most popular and prolific science fiction artist today. His gritty, realistic work in the 1950s set a new agenda for magazine and book covers--which artists follow still. But, his painting also can reveal a relaxed humor, with their cheeky scoundrels and personable aliens. More than 24 publications featured his work, includingAnalog,Astounding Science Fiction, andThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He's illustrated stories by some of the greatest sci-fi writers--Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, e.g.--as well as record and CD art. He also did the original, definitive 3-D bust of Alfred E. Neumann,Madmagazine's gap-toothed mascot. A new volume of Freas's art is always something to celebrate, and this one, containing the all the best of his work from 1984 to the present, is no exception.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(8)
Tim Powers
Preface	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(6)
Getting Started in Painting	16	(10)
Illusion in Art - and Life	26	(12)
Some of My Best Critics Are Friends - or Vice Versa	38	(12)
I Don't Know What's Good, But...	50	(8)
In Defence of De Philistines	58	(8)
Selling Books	66	(10)
Robots and More Robots	76	(6)
What, Art? What Art?	82	(6)
The Way I Work - More or Less	88	(8)
On the Painting of Beautiful Women	96	(6)
A Separate Universe	102	(8)
About Kelly and Laura Freas	110	(2)
Index of Works	112