Mass - The Art Of John Harris
                                             (2000 - Paper Tiger)  

     This book has 112 pages plus more paintings on the front & back covers.  I'm going to say that because so many of these works by Harris speak to size, scale and 'expanse', that they insist on being featured with large-reproductions of themselves and that then results in this book being particularly high-scoring by our criteria.  Indeed, 97 pages each feature large-reproductions of the paintings and a majority of those are full-bleed.  Add to that another 12 pages of multiple images, for 109 art-pages in all (96%).  Know that 44 of those pages are utilized to present 22 long pieces that spread over the book's central-gutter, all remaining 'o.k.' in that representation (once again, due to the sprawling nature of most of his work (and sometimes judicious use of the portfolio-centers)).  Almost everything is captioned with title, medium, size (traditional & metric) as well as a small bit of commentary.  The chapters are Imminent Thunder, The Origin Of The Images, The Roads To Mass-And Beyond, and Finding The Image, as well as a useful one-page index of the paintings.


other Paper Tiger Monographs

  Paper Tiger's Tim White books

  Paper Tiger's Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell books

  Paper Tiger's Boris Vallejo books

  Jim Warren:  Painted Worlds

  Chris Achilleos:  Beauty And The Beast

  Paper Tiger's Chris Foss books

  The Fantasy Art Techniques Of Tim Hildebrandt

  Paper Tiger's Ciruelo books

  Peter Jones:   Solar Wind

  Offerings - The Art Of Brom

  Paper Tiger's Bob Eggleton collections

  Mark Harrison's Dreamlands

  Ron Miller:  Firebrands - The Heroines Of Science Fiction & Fantasy

  Paper Tiger's Jim Burns books

  Journeyman - The Art Of Chris Moore

  Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story

  Mermaids And Magic Shows - The Paintings Of David Delamare

  The Deceiving Eye - The Art Of Richard Hescox

  Parallel Lines - The Science Fiction Illustrations Of Peter Elson & Chris Moore

  Only Visiting This Planet - The Art Of Danny Flynn

  Inner Visions - The Art Of Ron Walotsky

  Enchanted World - The Art Of Anne Sudworth

  Frank Kelly Freas:   As He Sees It

  Hardyware - The Art Of David A. Hardy

  Paper Tiger's Julie Bell books

  Roger Dean:  Views

  The Art Of Richard Powers

  Linda & Roger Garland:  The Book Of The Unicorn

  Jeffrey Catherine Jones:   Yesterday's Lily

  Rick Griffin

  The Science Fiction Art Of Vincent DiFate



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