"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
It’s been a while since I last scanned and posted some covers of paperbacks in my personal collection, so let’s give that a try:
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In addition to RCN, I’m currently running three tumblr blogs and a twitter feed, and there are days when I think that, perhaps, I have taken on too much…
More cover scans this morning! Vincent Di Fate is a big name in SF illustration — he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2011 — but his work has never been featured on RCN. My problem with Di Fate’s work is that, generally speaking, I find it lacking in originality and oomph, but I’ve tried to keep an open mind, and now I finally have three in hand that I think are interesting, though I still can’t shake the feeling that the images have been cobbled together in an impersonal, stylistically nondescript sort of way:
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ABOVE: Philip José Farmer, To Your Scatted Bodies Go (NY: Berkley, 1973), with cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
ABOVE: Roger Elwood, ed., The Other Side of Tomorrow (NY: Pyramid, 1975), with cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
ABOVE: M. J. Engh, Arslan (NY: Warner, 1976), 86-104, with cover art by Vincent Di Fate.
BONUS IMAGES:
ABOVE: Max Ernst, Day and Night (1941), oil on canvas, 146 x 112 cm. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
ABOVE: Giorgio de Chirico, Evangelical Still Life (1956), oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm. Collection of Museo Botero, Bogotá, Colombia. Via TRANSISTORADIO.
More covers today with strong art by an underrated illustrator whose work I’ve featured before here at RCN:
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To view all of the covers with art by Bob Pepper that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here and scroll down the page.
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