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 Mirage - Boris Vallejo
Newest Review: ... in all its forms. A slim A4 hardback volume, Mirage is more than just a coffee table book or a talking point. It’s a book I ... more  ... go back to time and time again. When I’m happy it reinforces my mood, and when I’m sad it lifts my spirits. When I’m weary with everyday cares, it transports me to another place, a stranger and more vibrant world than the one we live in maybe. This might seem like a tall order just for a book, but like the best of novels, art can take us out of ourselves if we let it.
So, enough of the rhetoric, what are the pictures like? This is quite an old book – first published in 1982 – but for me these works of art do...more |
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Mirage - Boris Vallejo: The stuff wet dreams are made of (1561 words)
by steffiw_dooyoo - written on 29/03/05 (Very useful, 2466 readings)
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Flicking through my all time favourite non-fiction book, Mirage by Boris Vallejo, and considering how I might write a review of it, started me thinking, pondering the meaning of art. To me, art is anything that stirs the senses and fires the emotions. It can be so many different things to different people. We see art in a Caravaggio oil, a Monet landscape or a Degas ballet girl, in an Andy Warhol poster or in the line of a building, the tactile beauty of a sculpture, even a pile of bricks or a toilet can be art to some people. Boris Vallejo began his career as a book illustrator for works by authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice Chetwynd Lee ...
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