Paper Tiger's combination SF & Fantasy collections
   Heroic Dreams
   The Flights Of Icarus
   The Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery
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Heroic Dreams (1987) (by Nigel Suckling) The text, scattered throughout the book is Suckling's essay on the concept of heroes in particular cultures and their literature. The four chapters are: Introduction, On The Border Of Chaos, Dreams Of Chivalry and The Grail Quest. There is a two-page index in the back detailing the many works that appear here and their artists. The essay is truly secondary to the page after page of art. There are six two-image pages and a failed double-page spread, but that leaves four successful double-page spreads and another 139 glorious pages devoted to single large images. Every piece is captioned with a title and the artist's name. These visual expressions of the heroic theme range from the primitive to the far-flung future. They include spaceships and alien landscapes, as well the large swatch of the barbarian milieu (which is where the bit of nudity that is to be found is found . . .). Notwithstanding the one or two exceptions, this book seems to have been a place that the Paper Tiger editors could gather works by those artists that were their favorites, but were not going to be able to get their own collections. In all, the 'well-presented' painters here are: Jim Burns (14), Richard Clifton-Dey (7), Chris Collingwood (2), Gordon Crabb (4), Alan Craddock (10), Ian Craig (8), Les Edwards (24), Michael Embden (3), Peter Goodfellow (11), Peter Gudynas (2), John Harris (13)***, Colin Hay (3), Julek Heller (6), Robin Hiddon (2), David Jackson, Bob Layzell (2), Angus McKie (4), Terry Oakes (3), Dave Pether (2) and Tony Roberts (13).

*** - Note that regarding the 'well-presented' pieces here by Harris, some, but not all, can additionally be found in his own collection up on The List.

The Flights Of Icarus (1977) (edited by Roger & Martin Dean with profound New Age-ish text written by Donald Lehmkuhl). This is a well regarded large 12-by-12 inch volume of SF & Fantasy Art published in the 1970s. The Deans and their partner were certainly excited about the out-there art that was being presented on LP vinyl album covers and seemed to embrace that large square format to give you even more fantastical art. I've since heard that there was a marketing scheme at play as well, since these early volumes were meant to be displayed alongside the LPs and sold to the same audience that was always looking for these trippy albums found in music stores and 'head shops' around the world. Anyway, being this thick at that size is a bit unwieldy. Out of the book's 155 pages, you'll find 11 of them that have two smaller images gathered together, and another 123 that have featured large reproductions. A number of those large pages are used for 14 paintings that grew so large as to spread across the central gutter (two of them flunk-out in that presentation). No white backgrounds here - all pieces are backgrounded with black or saturated pastels & creams. Other than the three pages of artist thumbnail biographies and painting index, Lehmkuhl scores 14 pages for his writings. Everything is captioned with the artist's name and the title of the piece. Be aware that there is occasionally some judicious cropping going on and some larger pieces are reduced to one page. All the artists collected get at least one 'well-presented' display. They are: Robert Beer, David Bergen (6), John Blanche (2), Jim Burns (7)***, Gordon Crabb, Roger Dean (5), Peter Elson (8)***, Jim Fitzpatrick (4), Chris Foss (6), Dick French (2), Peter Goodfellow (7), Melvyn Grant (9), Colin Hay (2), Terry Ilott (2), Jeffrey Catherine Jones (2)***, Peter Jones (8)***, Michael Kaluta (2), Josh Kirby, Alan Lee (2), Angus McKie (6), Syd Mead (2), Ian Miller, Chris Moore (2)*, David O'Connor (2), Bruce Pennington (4), John Ridgewell (2), Tony Roberts (2), Tim White (5)*, Barry Windsor-Smith, Patrick Woodroffe (4), Una Woodruff (3), and Bernie Wrightson (2).

* - Note that all of Moore & White's 'well-presented' pieces here can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Jeffery Jones, Peter Jones, Burns & Elson's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

The Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery (2002) (edited by Paul Barnett) Part of Paper Tiger's on-line publication, "The Paper Snarl", was fantasy artist interviews. This book gathers 25 of them together and uses that as an opportunity to display those artists' work. Note that two of the individuals are dimensional artists and there are a number of pictures of their creations. The book is 144 pages with almost 80 focusing on the art, about 70 being large reproductions. A lot of longer works are held to one page, but six are allowed spread across the gutter (none to great effect, but most are o.k.). Each caption includes the title, creation year, media and the purpose it was put to. The featured artists are: Brom*, Jim Burns (4), Ciruelo (5), Judith Clute (3), Steve Crisp (5), Joe DeVito (2), Vincent DiFate (2)*, Bob Eggleton (3), Fangorn, Frank Kelly Freas*, Fred Gambino (3), David A. Hardy (4)**, John Harris (4)*, Jael (3), Ron Miller (3), Chris Moore (4)*, Martina Pilcerova (3), Marc Potts, Nick Stathopoulos (2), Anne Sudworth (2)*, Ron Tiner (5), Ron Walotsky (3)*** and A.B. Word (5).

* - Note that all of the 'well-presented' pieces here by Harris, Moore, Brom, DiFate, Freas, and Sudworth, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that regarding Hardy's 'well-presented' pieces here, none additionally appear so in his own collection on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Walotsky's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found in his own collection up on The List.

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