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1. • • Foss's smooth, representational style, demonstrated on hundreds of covers, spearheaded a revolution in British sf paperback design in the 1970s, and the artist's success inspired many imitators, creating for a while an almost tedious predictability in publishers' book covers, though this was their fault and not Foss's.
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   What painting did Ian Curtis paint after Chris Foss?

   • Brown’s painting The Pornography of Death (Painting for Ian Curtis) After Chris Foss (1995) was an exact copy, with nothing added, of Travelling Cities (1981) by Foss, which had appeared in Esquire and the Sunday Times Magazine.

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   Who is Chris Foss?

   • You may not know his name, but you've seen his art in Guardians of the Galaxy and Alien, and his influence just about everywhere. Long before director James Gunn needed someone to make the spaceships of Guardians of the Galaxy look like they flew out of the 1970s, Chris Foss was painting a different kind of picture.

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   • "Chris Foss was a true angel, a being as real and as unreal as his spaceships," Jodorowsky would go on to say. Before the late 1960s and early 70s, the time when Foss came to the fore, British science-fiction novels were framed in half-hearted abstract swirls or perhaps the minimalistic outline of a rocket.

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   How many covers does Foss have?

   • Over the course of more than 1,000 covers, the Foss future gradually gained recognizable themes regardless of whose book they adorned. Massive tanks and robots commonly scavenged through decaying piles of machinery on brutalist alien planets. Bulbous, colorful starships floated through the hyper-industrialized society of Foss's imagination.

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3. www.popularmechanics.com › culture › a19088The Man Who Defined the Look of Sci-Fi - Popular Mechanics

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   Mar 9, 2016 · Tastes change, of course, and as that look gave way to the digitally inspired art of 90s covers, Foss's halcyon decades became known as retrofuture sci-fi art, and Foss became the figurehead of ...

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4. eandt.theiet.org › 2013/08/12 › sci-fi-artist-chrisSci-fi artist Chris Foss talks through his inspirations

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   Aug 12, 2013 · Chris Foss has had a fundamental impact on the world of science fiction, bringing to life the works of luminaries such as Issac Asimov, Doc EE Smith, Harry Harrison and AE van Vogt and Philip K Dick. No mean achievement from an artist who proclaims that he had no love of science fiction as a child.

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   Jan 8, 2014 · Published January 8, 2014. Comments ( 308) What's the difference between these two images? On the left is a book cover by legendary artist Chris Foss for Asimov's Stars Like Dust. On the right...

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7. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskThe $5.7 Million Magazine Illustration | The New Yorker

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   Feb 19, 2014 · The painting is almost an exact replica of a science-fiction illustration that Foss created for a men’s magazine in the nineteen-seventies, for which he was paid about three hundred and fifty...

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   Jul 29, 2011 · A science fiction visionary. Artist and illustrator Chris Foss has been credited with transforming the landscape of science fiction. Interview by Matilda Battersby. Friday 29 July 2011...

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   Foss, Chris. Entry updated 19 February 2024. Tagged: Artist. (1946- ) Working name of British artist Christopher F Foss. Foss studied architecture at Cambridge University, and he has worked in sf Illustration since 1970, primarily as a cover artist; he uses brush and airbrush to excellent effect. Foss's smooth, representational style ...

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    Is cult science fiction artist Chris Foss’s work just highly effective illustration, or can it be seen as a visionary form of art?