The Sword & Sorcery Saga - A look at Taschen's Masterpieces of Fantasy Art 

If I win the lottery I want to be a major collector of Frazetta's art. Amazing.

Nobody talks enough about Sanjulian. The striking images, vibrant colors... Ah, so good.

Thank you for taking time to talk about this book. Brings back many memories.

11:48 "side of a van style" I loved that, such a funny but immediately understandable way of describing it XD

What an incredible book! Something to treasure through the years. I have to say out of all the channels I subscribe to, yours has fast become the one I enjoy the most. Please keep up the great work.

Nice that you mentioned Irish artist Harry Clark. His stained glass work is stunning. Great Video!

Awesome flip thru! Thank you for sharing this.

Good review! Thanks.

I have this book too! It's sooo massive and full of stuff! I love it! Certainly a highlight of my collection.

Sweet! Good to switch things up a bit. Great vid.

Great video ❤ thank you

I feel like they should have wrapped Boris and Julie into one chapter and got another artist in. Not to diminish Julies work. It's a great book, they released a much smaller version for the Tachen 40th anniversary series which is also a fraction of the price. The XXL Frazetta book is also fantastic, it really is the magnum opus of Frazetta art books. I hope they make more in the future for other fantasy artists.

Thanks for the great review.

The universe is wild... someone gave me an art book of Josephine Wall just yesterday. It got us talking about our favorite artists and here you got a book full of them. I always count Larry Elmore among them too. I like H R Giger , but he does seem out of place here. I remember an artist named Rojo some such... they were pretty awesome. They were a heavy metal stable in the 80s.

Amazing book, thanks for sharing.

I finally set aside a half hour where I could watch the screen for this. Beautiful book. It was fun watching you go through and describing the same feelings I have towards the art, with the expected exception of Moebius - maybe I’m missing a gene or something. So many cool memories. When you turned to the brothers Hildebrandt - that is exactly the art I think of as a world I’d like to visit. That Elric with the dragons was one of the first fantasy posters I ever bought, and I hadn’t even heard of Elric. Have you seen Elric at the End of Time, illustrated by Rodney Mathews? One of my favorite books. I bought The White Dragon just because the Whelan cover was so cool, then read the series.

Thanks for sharing your treasure. I wish you had edited this book. We might have got more Freas, Finley and Bok.

I have a copy of this beauty! Your video was very entertaining and your opinions interesting. Greetings from sweden!

This is going on the wishlist immediately.

Nice work man! I'm actually really new to Sword and Sorcery genre as a whole, but finally decided to give it a shot thanks to the fun and simple stories along with the down right spellbinding art. I think my favorite is Boris Vallejo just cause I like the rendering style and just the 80s bodybuilder physics, however completely understand the praise and recognition of Frank Frazetta. His art just doesn't grab me as much as Vallejo for some reason.

Every time I'm in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's bookstore, I see this and I'm so tempted to buy it. Sadly I can't justify the price tag despite that it's well worth the cost.

Frank Frazetta is my favorite sword & sorcery artist. Boris Vallejo was popular around the 1980's time period, but I never liked his painting style--I particularly disliked his color palette and overuse of the 1980's body builder physique for his male heroes. I much prefer the less garish colors, more menacing and dynamic figures painted by Frazetta.

We're not gonna flip through every single page he says and then shows them all! 🙂Keep up the passion!

Beautiful.

I agree that Giger doesn't move me as well. Alot of these artists in here were just ok. They dont make me want to visit their world (so to speak). I do like Boris, Julie, Rowena and frazetta. Ken kelly is my absolute favorite. I got into his work when I was about 13 and bought the trading cards. I actually have a signed art book and two numbered prints by him. I also have a commission painting by Ken coming which should be arriving in the next month. Can't wait to see it. If this book was cheaper I'd probably get it. I just checked on Amazon and it's 300 bucks!

Very nice look at the book. My one humble criticism of your review -- you mentioned that you don't like Giger and that they should have combined Vallejo and Bell so many times throughout the video. Mentioning it once or twice would have probably gotten the point across.

Fantastic video. Mesmerising. Can I ask what the ambient background music is? Ty

thank you for showing this book. There are a lot of books dedicated to Boris Valejo, Julia Bell and GIger. there is no point to put them in this book. They really could found place in this book for other artists. You should look a book The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta by Taschen. Hope they ll continue to dedicate books to separate artists. Could you tell what artist is on 10:16 ? Looks like something like Heavy Metal Magazine.

Don't know if this has been asked. But where did you get the card display holder you use in your game play/reviews? I would like to pick one up.

there was one very similar to Franzetta and it was john buscema only him can reach the same quality as franzetta

they published the book about Frank Frazetta art.

What's the name of that artist who did those super cool fantasy Dungeons & Dragons art in the late 70s and early 80s inside Marvel Comics advertising ads ??

In that book I am missing the color of Richard Corben. Best regards

Jeez I'm so jealous, that book looks amazing. I agree with you about Boris Vallejo, his technique is brilliant but something always seems so forced with his compositions, I dunno.

This book is not yet available on Taschen website (??)

If you like the Incal by Jodorowsky and Moebius, you may like the Metabarons by Jodorowsky and Jimenez.

Is there a full English version?

With Frazetta, I see characters. With Vallejo, models.

I’m surprised there is no mention of Luis Royo…a glaring omission if I ever saw one.

*I like 'em all.*

The quality of much of it isn't bad but it's very one-dimensional. Robert E. Howard's 'Conan' has a lot to answer for.

Vaughn Bodé, Wendy Pini....etc.

1000%

The double L in Vallejo is pronounced like y in year.

Also where is Olivia B? She did some fantasy art... though she was more a pin up artist.

I also think (and I'm not saying this as a criticism or as an endorsement) that fantasy art has something of a pornographic sensibility. I'm don't just mean it shows chests and bulges. It demands more, the most, everything at once, always bigger, always outlandish

Giger's art was more satanic in nature, which I never liked.

He'll man stop talking and show the damn book.