Beyond the Fantastic

Beyond the Fantastic
Author: Gerardo Mosquera
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts, London. This anthology, edited by Cuban art historian and critic Gerardo Mosquera, offers a wide selection of writings by some of the most important cultural theoreticians of contemporary Latin America. Together they comprise a distinctive corpus of new theoretical discourses, critical of modernity and solidly and pragmatically anti-utopian. The collection balances traditional and popular aesthetic-symbolic production as well as Afro- and Indo-American presences in the visual arts, and covers the whole of the Americans, including the Caribbean and the United States.Contributors: Mó(R)(c)£a Amor. Pierre E. Bocquet. Gustavo Buntinx. Luis Camnitzer. Né3 ́or Garcí¡ Canclini. Ticio Escobar. Andrea Giunta. Guillermo Gó- °-Peñ¡(R) Paulo Herkenhoff. Mirko Lauer. Celeste Olalquiaga. Gabriel Peluffo Linari. Carolina Ponce de Leó(R)(R) Mari Carmen Ramí2 z. Nelly Richard. Tomá3 Ybarra-Frausto. George Y?.

Beyond the Zonules of Zinn

Beyond the Zonules of Zinn
Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674020421

In his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function.

Beyond the Black Door

Beyond the Black Door
Author: A.M. Strickland
Publisher: Imprint
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250198755

Beyond the Black Door is a young adult dark fantasy about unlocking the mysteries around and within us—no matter the cost... Everyone has a soul. Some are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons. Soulwalkers—like Kamai and her mother—can journey into other people's souls while they sleep. But no matter where Kamai visits, she sees the black door. It follows her into every soul, and her mother has told her to never, ever open it. When Kamai touches the door, it is warm and beating, like it has a pulse. When she puts her ear to it, she hears her own name whispered from the other side. And when tragedy strikes, Kamai does the unthinkable: she opens the door. A.M. Strickland's imaginative dark fantasy features court intrigue and romance, a main character coming to terms with her asexuality, and twists and turns as a seductive mystery unfolds that endangers not just Kamai's own soul, but the entire kingdom ... An Imprint Book “I couldn’t put down this deliciously dark dream of a fantasy.” —New York Times bestselling author Lisa Maxwell “A dark delight, gorgeously written and as twisty and enigmatic as a labyrinth at twilight. I wanted to stay lost in its pages forever, wandering ever deeper into the maze of Strickland’s beguiling, intricately imagined world.” —Margaret Rogerson, New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens

In the Black Fantastic

In the Black Fantastic
Author: Ekow Eshun
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500777314

In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience and beyond looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Transcending time, space and genre to span art, design, fashion architecture, film, literature and popular culture from African myth to future fantasies and beyond, this vital, timely and compelling publication is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.

Fantastic Television

Fantastic Television
Author: Gary Gerani
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1977
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Text and more than 400 illustrations provide information on every science fiction and fantasy program that has been shown on television.

Spectrum 24

Spectrum 24
Author: John Fleskes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Commercial art
ISBN: 9781933865997

"The best-selling Spectrum series--often imitated but never equaled--continues with this lavishly produced 24th annual. Spectrum is the premier showcase for imaginative fantastic arts in the book, comic, film, horror, illustration, sculpture, conceptual art, fine art and video-game genres. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant, full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium--both traditional and digital. This volume features over 500 works by more than 300 diverse visionaries, including Julie Bell, Brom, Rovina Cai, Terry Dodson, Cory Godbey, J. Anthony Kosar, Anita Kunz, Dave McKean, Tran Nguyen, Karla Ortiz, David Palumbo, Forest Rogers, Dan dos Santos, and Allen Williams. Spectrum 24 continues the freshness and excellence that was established twenty-four years ago"--Verso de la couverture.

Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta

Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta
Author: J. David Spurlock
Publisher: Vanguard
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781934331811

Discover the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta in the landmark collection, Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta. The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels." Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of major works of Fine Art. Despite his fantastic subject matter, the quality of Frazetta's work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth but, even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo and, major Frazetta works sell for millions of dollars. This innovator's work has inspired generations of artists, movies including the Conan films, John Carter of Mars, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Robert Rodriguez' films including From Dusk Till Dawn, Ralph Bakshi films, the epic, Game of Thrones series, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Disney's animated Tarzan films, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and George Lucas' Star Wars. Forbes magazine said, "Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians." J. David Spurlock started crafting this book by reviving the original million-selling 1970s mass market art book, Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta. But, he expanded and revised to include twice as many images and, presents them at a much larger coffee-table book size. The collection is brimming with classic and rare works including barbarians, beasts, and beauties. Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin said, "Frazetta's covers of the Conan paperback collections became the definitive picture of the character... still is." Schwarzenegger said, "When I looked at Frazetta's paintings, I tell you, it was intimidating." Game of Thrones, Conan and Aquaman film star Jason Momoa said, "I am a huge Frank Frazetta fan. That's what I wanted to bring to life." See the revolutionary art that helped inspire Schwarzenegger, Momoa, the Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones: FRAZETTA!

A Natural History of the Fantastic

A Natural History of the Fantastic
Author: Christopher Stoll
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-12-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692560297

This 120-page artbook bestiary includes the anatomy, behavior, and origins of over 20 amazing fantasy creatures. Each interconnected through a series of recorded histories, myths, and first-hand encounters that stress the value of exploration and curiosity in the face of superstition.

The Dark Fantastic

The Dark Fantastic
Author: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1479806072

Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON for BIPOC+ in Speculative Fiction Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”

Spectrum 2

Spectrum 2
Author: Cathy Fenner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781599290058

Katerhine Murta Adams, Paul Alexander, Marshall Arisman, Steve Armes, Michael Aspergren, Steven Assel, aka Steven Assael, Rosana Azar, Leslie Bates, Jill Bauman, S.V. Bel, Kimberley Bentley, John Berkey, Richard Bernal, Rick Berry, Simon Bisley, Thomas Blackshear II, Richard Bober, John Bolton, Norman Breyfogle, Gregory Bridges, Brom, Scott Burdick, Jim Burns, Clyde Caldwell, Vincent Cantillion, David Cherry, Joe Chiodo, Russell G. Chong, Alan M. Clark, Newell Convers, Ray-Mel Cornelius, Kinuko Y. Craft, Steven Crisp, Joseph DeVito, Leo & Diane Dillon, Dave Dorman, Les Dorscheid, Thomas Dow, Felipe Echevarria, Les Edwards Bob Eggleton, Francois Escalmel, Tony Frerking, Brian Froud, Nick Gaetano, Donato Giancola, Gary Gianni, Gary Glover, James Gurney, Scott Gustafson, Phil Hale, Lurene Haines, Mark Harrison, Hap Henriksen, Stephen Hickman, Patrick Ho, Daniel Horne, John Howe, Nicholas Jainschigg, Bruce Jensen, Jay Johnson, Gary Kelley, Dave Kramer, Kevin Kreneck, Ray Lago, Jeff Laubenstein, April Lee, Jody A. Lee, Terry Lee, Jerry Lofaro, Kevin Long, Carl Lundgren, Scott Mack, Don Maitz, Gregory Manchess, Sergio Martinez, John Matson, David B. Mattingly, Scott McKowen, Wilson McLean, Oliver McRae, Ken Meyer, Jr., Frank Miller, Ian Miller, Ron Miller, Thomas O. Miller, Lauren Mills, Jeff Miracola, Gary Montalbano, Dean Morrisey, Real Musgrave, Jon J. Muth, Mark Nagata, Bill Nelson, James Nelson, Dennis Nolan, Jean-Pierre Normand, John Jude Palencar, Keith Parkinson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Myles Pinkney, J.K. Potter, John Pound, Don Ivan Punchatz, Omar Rayyan, Luis Royo, Gary Ruddell, Robh Ruppel, John Rush, Barclay Shaw, R. Ward Shipman, Cortney Skinner, Nick Stathapoulos, William Stout, Stu Suchit, Tom Taggart, Jean Pierre Targete, Holly M. Tiberi, Carlos Torres, Ezra Tucker, Dorian Vallejo, Walter Velez, Charles Vess, Ron Walotsky, James Warhola, Greg Weber, Michael Whelan, Jack Whitney, Kent Williams, Janny Wurts, Paul Youll, Stephen Youll, John Zeleznik.