Author: Minamimura Takashi.
Title: Original illustration for a double page spread in Shonen magazine.
Description: n.p. c1960? Illustration in ink and watercolour on two sheets of card, each 27x18cm with most of the right panel cut away for the text block. Taped onto a translucent sheet; a couple of editorial notes. ¶ Minamimura is best known for his outer space and apocalyptic monster and alien illustrations but destruction by any high-tech means was right up his alley. Here is a fine bit of cold war Japanese atomic apocalypse art by one of the masters. Forget the background geography, that's Tokyo Tower crumpling. Tokyo Tower and the first successful intercontinental missile flight both date to 1958.
Keywords: graphic art Japan c20th illustration atom atomic bomb science fiction thrillers
Title: Original illustration for a double page spread in Shonen magazine.
Description: n.p. c1960? Illustration in ink and watercolour on two sheets of card, each 27x18cm with most of the right panel cut away for the text block. Taped onto a translucent sheet; a couple of editorial notes. ¶ Minamimura is best known for his outer space and apocalyptic monster and alien illustrations but destruction by any high-tech means was right up his alley. Here is a fine bit of cold war Japanese atomic apocalypse art by one of the masters. Forget the background geography, that's Tokyo Tower crumpling. Tokyo Tower and the first successful intercontinental missile flight both date to 1958.
Keywords: graphic art Japan c20th illustration atom atomic bomb science fiction thrillers
Price: AUD 600.00 = appr. US$ 415.12 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 10276
- Book number: 10276