Ron Miller ’s new coffee tabular array book The Art of Space is a gorgeous history of scientific illustrations , full of retro rockets and stunning planetscapes . It ’s also a glimpse back at the cutting - edge astronomy of past times . We ’ve got a verandah of some of the most dramatic work from the Koran .
Top image by Chesley Bonestell
The Art of Space(Zenith Press ) , redact by io9 contributor Miller , mastermind the sprawl history of artistic depictions of quad into era and schools of style and proficiency , countenance the referee see how space fine art has developed and change over the past two hundred age . Most of the story is tell through the subtitle that follow each image , letting the images themselves fill the pages . There ’s also an introduction by eminent uranologist Carolyn Porco , plus in - depth sidebar by Miller highlighting finicky artists or important event in space art history .
Even as someone with a fascination for space artistry will learn a batch from this book — Miller manages to cover a lot without give detail . There are early woodcut , pulp magazine magazine covers , Soviet space propaganda , computer generated nontextual matter , airy imaginings , eccentric noncitizen , even art made by astronaut .
The gallery below shows off some of my pet images out of 300 incredible piece in the record book .
By Lucy West
John Berkey
Alan Bean
Ray Pioch
Lucy West
Don Davis
Don Dixon
Wayne Barlowe
A. DeVille d’Avray
David A. Hardy
Marilyn Flynn
Soviet placard
Alexander Leydenfrost
Marcel Priollet
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