Give me Richard Powers or give me something else!

April 14, 2010 5:39 PM

I really enjoy Richard Powers scifi bookcover art. I'd love to put it on my walls. Are there Richard Powers prints out there? Barring that, where else might I look for prints with a similar level of awesome?

Here are some example covers from Richard Powers.

posted by ian1977 to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

I don't think you mean Richard Powers the writer. Maybe the link was supposed to be this Richard Powers?
posted by k. at 6:02 PM on April 14, 2010

Response by poster: I don't think you mean Richard Powers the writer. Maybe the link was supposed to be this Richard Powers?

Oh brother...forehead slap! Yes, yes I did. Thanks for the catch k.
posted by ian1977 at 6:07 PM on April 14, 2010

I really enjoy Richard M. Powers' art too!

I also like:

• Bob Pepper's covers for various PKD novels
• Gene Szafran's covers for various Signet editions of Robert Heinlein. (His other work is fine too.)
• J.R.R Tolkien's illustrations of his own works are by far, the best in my opinion. There's a book of Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator which has all kinds of great stuff in it.
• Mervyn Peake was a good illustrator, but weirdly, I don't think did much to illustrate his own books
• Peter Sís' books and illustrations (I also like the cover he did of The Hobbit)
• Early F/SF/H illustrators like Sidney Sime and Ray F. Coyle
• I love Stephen Fabian's illustration for Lovecraft's Whisperer in the Darkness
• Hannes Bok is usually fun
• Daniel Mroz's illustrations in Lem's Cyberiad
• more ...

Comic artists: I'm really into Jim Woodring.

I can't really mention Woodring without also mentioning the illustrations in Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur.

Fine artists: I like Bosch, Bruegel, Blake, but also van Gogh, Dali, Magritte, and Escher of course, many, many more ...

Lately I've had a thing for Paul Klee's work. Some of his paintings totally entrance me. Sure I'd hang prints up to look at, but, more than anything, something about Klee makes me want to make art.

Sorry for the lack of links. I started doing some searches but kept getting distracted. If any of this jives and you know of more stuff you want to share let me know.

Hope this helps!
posted by wobh at 12:27 AM on April 15, 2010

you could pick up a copy of this book of his work (or two...used copies are cheap!) and frame some of the pages from it. it's only 8.5x11, though...

John Berkey and Syd Mead are probably right up your alley as well...check out Max Ernst, too...
posted by sexyrobot at 1:05 AM on April 15, 2010

You would probably like Yves Tanguy, maybe there are prints of his stuff?
posted by runtina at 5:36 AM on April 15, 2010

The Wikipedia article refs this company that appears to sell his art...catalogs available.
posted by circular at 1:51 PM on April 15, 2010