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A New Book Makes the Case That Fantasy Art Is America’s Least Understood Fine-Art Form—See the Wild Images Here
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| 12/23/2020
| Sarah Cascone
Posted on 12/28/2020 2:19:08 PM PST by tbw2
A New Book Makes the Case That Fantasy Art Is America’s Least Understood Fine-Art Form—See the Wild Images Here Taschen presents 500 pages of dragons, wizards, and fantasy maidens.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; escapism; fantasy; sciencefiction
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To: RoosterRedux
To buy modern art you must have wallet openness.
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:37:21 PM PST
by
samadams2000
(Get your houses in order.)
To: Seruzawa
Re: Art that went for $30M in Post 5.
No one talks about two huge scams involved with such "art". One is money laundering.
The other is buying a painting, loaning it to a museum and writing of the value of the "loan" on your income taxes as a charitable "donation". Over time the taxpayers have in effect paid for your painting.
To: tbw2
Dean and Franzetta.
![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1bEZVM3wJ5M/XGx-5ST7YVI/AAAAAAAAB3A/kqGmCpEjassqxaUWQotKMDhqDAcF5bqAgCLcBGAs/s1600/pala3.jpg)
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:41:15 PM PST
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
To: RoosterRedux
Many “modern art” fans look down on other art.
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:41:19 PM PST
by
Stravinsky
(Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
To: Seruzawa
Looks like a self-portrait done by a robotic Andy Warhol.
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:41:30 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: samadams2000
LOL.
I remember a long time ago when I first moved to NYC back in the late 70's, there was a couple who collected modern art. They were school teachers if I recall correctly.
Lived in a tiny apartment but had an incredibly valuable collection. Bought it all from artists who became well-respected but assembled their collection when they artists were unknown.
You might remember that story.
To: RoosterRedux
I agree with you. Some modern art is quite good. Robert Hughes wrote a book that became a PBS documentary called "The Shock of the New" where he tried to separate the wheat from the chaff in modern art. I think he did a really good job and I agreed with most of his choices.
He later became really disheartened by how the modern art market became more about financial appreciation than art appreciation and made another documentary on that.
To: samadams2000
To: lee martell
Don’t forget Boris Villejo [spelling]
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:46:42 PM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: tbw2
Used to be “I am high on LSD art.”
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:47:02 PM PST
by
madison10
(Maranatha!)
To: who knows what evil?
Don’t forget Julie Bell. :-)
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:47:19 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds. )
To: Sawdring
Lots of quality art in the D&D Manuals.
I enjoyed the Dragonlance novels as well.
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:48:16 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: Seruzawa
That’s pretty cool. I don’t know if I’d pop 30,000,000 on it. But then I don’t live in that stratosphere. I’d definitely drop 50 bucks on it.
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:49:02 PM PST
by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick )
To: mewzilla
She’s married to Boris...
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:49:17 PM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:49:55 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds. )
To: who knows what evil?
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posted on
12/28/2020 2:50:21 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds. )
To: T.B. Yoits
Speaking of scams, remember Mark Rothko. I have one of his paintings (a print, of course) hanging in my living room.
IIRC, his work went up greatly in value when he committed suicide. Didn't his dealer give him the pistol he used?
He's not a scam though...love his paintings
To: RoosterRedux
Herb was a postal worker and Dorothy was a librarian (it says in Wiki. Not school teachers.).
To: tbw2
"Fantasy art", much as I like Roger Dean, is not art. It's illustration. Art is art. Illustration is craft.
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posted on
12/28/2020 3:02:27 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("The more righteous your fight, the more opposition you will face." --Donald J. Trump)
To: who knows what evil?
Cleaning out my basement. Found ALL my old Doc Savage, The Avenger, Conan, Kull, books. Thought to sell them but they don’t bring much. Still, hard to find online.
They featured the art of Frazzetta, Bama and others.
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