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Oliver Frey is one of the most important artists working in the medium of commercial illustration. This lavish book documents his work between 1970 and today. The prime focus is on his staggering output in the 1980s and early 1990s when, as a director of magazine publisher Newsfield Ltd, he produced hundreds of magazine covers, software games inlays and incidental illustrations that set the video games market alight internationally. Frey's early history reveals his work on some of Britain's greatest comic institutions such as the Fleetway War Picture Library, Dan Dare in Eagle, and The Trigan Empire in Look & Learn, as well as his celebrated 1930s-style opening sequence for the film Superman, The Movie . The book also throws light on Frey's techniques, from line-and-wash to the airbrush, and more recently, his computer-generated work. While the paintings will be familiar to many magazine readers, few will have ever seen the originals as beautifully reproduced as this, and free of the commercial sales lines and slogans that cluttered them as magazine covers and posters.Product Identifiers
PublisherThalamus Publishing
ISBN-139781902886060
eBay Product ID (ePID)88356613
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Fantasy Art of Oliver Frey
AuthorRoger Michael Kean
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicDesign
Publication Year2006
Dimensions
Item Height280mm
Item Width230mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRoger Michael Kean
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom