It has sold over a million copies and has been translated into 18 languages. The book landed on the New York Times Best Seller List, and won Hugo, World Fantasy, Chesley, Spectrum, and Colorado Children’s Book awards.
With the encouragement of retired publishers Ian and Betty Ballantine, he discontinued his freelance work and committed two years’ time to writing and illustrating Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, which was published in 1992. The inspiration that came from researching these archaeological reconstructions led to a series of lost world panoramas, including Waterfall City (1988) and Dinosaur Parade (1989). Starting in 1983, he began work on over a dozen assignments for National Geographic Magazine, including reconstructions of the ancient Moche, Kushite, and Etruscan civilizations, and the Jason and Ulysses voyages for Tim Severin. He painted more than 70 covers for science fiction and fantasy paperback novels, and he created several stamp designs for the US Postal Service, most notably The World of Dinosaurs in 1996.
Serious students of fine art as well as those with a more casual interest will rejoice in this original compilation of extraordinary images by an unjustly overlooked artist.Gurney's freelance illustration career began in the 1980s, during which time he developed his characteristic realistic renderings of fantastic scenes, painted in oil using methods similar to the academic realists and Golden Age illustrators. This volume's drawings and paintings were selected by Dinotopia author James Gurney, who also provides an informative Introduction. His skillfully rendered illustrations faithfully re-create details of anatomy, costume, and composition. In addition to founding Germany's realistic school, the artist laid the groundwork for the development of Expressionism. The first major naturalistic artist of his era, Menzel came of age in a country still in the grip of Goethe's romanticism.
This volume contains 98 black-and-white images and 32 color plates of his works, many of which have rarely been seen outside of Germany. In keeping with his motto, Menzel exhibited tremendous powers of observation, technical perfection, and an interest in a wide range of subjects. "To draw everything is good, to draw everything is better still," declared Adolph Menzel, one of nineteenth-century Berlin's premier artists.
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