Table of Contents

Introduction How to Use This Book Abbreviations Science Fiction Art: A Historical Overview Artist Biographies Science Fiction Art: What Still Exists Art Awards Bibliography Indexes

Promotional Information

This is ... a unique reference work, useful for research in high school, public, academic, and special (art) libraries. Highly recommended, especially for high schools with Advanced Placement art history courses. Wilson Library Bulletin

About the Author

ROBERT WEINBERG is the author of Weird Tales Story, Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard, and several hundred articles published in books and magazines.

Reviews

?. . . Weinberg and several collaborators have packed each entry with information on training, influences and first sales, personal anecdotes, discussions of technique, and fair critical appraisals. In a comprehensive introductory essay, Weinberg traces the history of fantastic illustration from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, focusing in particular on the impact that magazine chains, the paperback publishing boom, and the recent phenomenon of artists incorporating themselves as cottage industries, has had upon it. There is no other book like this currently available, and it is certain to be a standard reference for years to come.?-Science Fiction and Fantasy

?. . . Weinberg's work is so ground-breaking, his research so arduous, and his precursors in this field so generally unhelpful that we must regard this as charting virtually unexplored waters. There is nothing really to compare the book to, and there is not likely to be a more complete such book in the near future. Weinberg deserves the thanks of anyone seriously interested in what we might call the cultural history of SF, and his book belongs in any collection that purports to represent that history.?-Science Fiction Studies

?Robert Weinberg's A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists is the first of this month's nonfiction selections. This book lists some 331 science fiction and fantasy artists in an alphabetical arrangement, with each sketch providing birth/death dates, nationality, birthplace, education, career, and family data. Also provided is specific art career data, such as places of study, influences, technique, mediums and materials used, stylistic developments, and publishing relationships. . . . This is . . . a unique reference work, useful for research in high school, public, academic, and special (art) libraries. Highly recommended, especially for high schools with Advanced Placement art history courses.?-Wilson Library Bulletin

." . . Weinberg and several collaborators have packed each entry with information on training, influences and first sales, personal anecdotes, discussions of technique, and fair critical appraisals. In a comprehensive introductory essay, Weinberg traces the history of fantastic illustration from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, focusing in particular on the impact that magazine chains, the paperback publishing boom, and the recent phenomenon of artists incorporating themselves as cottage industries, has had upon it. There is no other book like this currently available, and it is certain to be a standard reference for years to come."-Science Fiction and Fantasy

." . . Weinberg's work is so ground-breaking, his research so arduous, and his precursors in this field so generally unhelpful that we must regard this as charting virtually unexplored waters. There is nothing really to compare the book to, and there is not likely to be a more complete such book in the near future. Weinberg deserves the thanks of anyone seriously interested in what we might call the cultural history of SF, and his book belongs in any collection that purports to represent that history."-Science Fiction Studies

"Robert Weinberg's A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists is the first of this month's nonfiction selections. This book lists some 331 science fiction and fantasy artists in an alphabetical arrangement, with each sketch providing birth/death dates, nationality, birthplace, education, career, and family data. Also provided is specific art career data, such as places of study, influences, technique, mediums and materials used, stylistic developments, and publishing relationships. . . . This is . . . a unique reference work, useful for research in high school, public, academic, and special (art) libraries. Highly recommended, especially for high schools with Advanced Placement art history courses."-Wilson Library Bulletin