Star Wars Art: Visions, published by Abrams Books on November 1, 2010, is a collection of artistic creations. It showcases 120 paintings, both in full-color and black and white, that draw inspiration from the Star Wars saga, contributed by over 100 distinguished artists. The book includes a foreword penned by George Lucas and an introductory piece by Jonathan W. Rinzler. Given the extensive collection of visuals, a more premium, limited special edition is available, offering over 40 extra illustrations, "behind the scenes" glimpses, and artist sketches, along with five archival-quality 10 × 12" giclé prints, each personally signed.
When Star Wars premiered in 1977, it fundamentally changed the visual aspects of popular American cinema, transporting viewers to unfamiliar galaxies and presenting them with numerous characters, outfits, extraterrestrial beings, planets, and spacecraft that have since become iconic. By 2005, with the final movie released in theaters, the Star Wars Saga had evolved into a global cultural phenomenon.
The Star Wars aesthetic has always been influenced by artists of comic books from the 1930s to the 1970s, famous illustrators like Chesley Bonestell, John Berkey, and Frank Frazetta, and even classical artists. Just as George Lucas used the work of N. C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell for his own visual ideas, he has now given over 100 well-known and up-and-coming artists from different fields, styles, and countries the task to use the entire Star Wars universe as their source of creativity.
Star Wars: Visions brings together these amazing artworks for the first time. It has pieces by famous artists like Amano, Allan R. Banks, Harley Brown, Gary Carter, James Christensen, Michael Coleman, Kinuko Craft, Jim Dietz, Phillipe Druillet, Donato Giancola, Ann Hanson, H. R. Giger, Daniel Greene, Ron Kleeman, Arantza Martinez, Syd Mead, Moebius, Paul Oxborough, Alex Ross, Anthony J. Ryder, Carl Samson, Dolfi Stoki, William Stout, Dan Thompson, Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo, Scott Waddell, Yuqi Wang, and Jamie Wyeth. Star Wars: Visions is a groundbreaking tribute to the global inspiration that Star Wars has given for more than thirty years.
The Limited Edition of Star Wars Visions includes over fifty paintings and illustrations that are not in the normal edition. It also has "behind-the-scenes" pictures of the artists at work, sketches they made to prepare, and other things. The Limited Edition is made in a fancy way, with a cover made of real cloth and a clamshell case. It also comes with five 10 × 12" high-quality archival giclee prints, each signed by the artists Jamie Wyeth, Alex Ross, Moebius, Donato Giancola, and Daniel Greene.
Star Wars Visions is a collection of art chosen by George Lucas. It includes works by different artists, illustrators, designers, and cartoonists who work in all kinds of styles and genres. They all celebrate their favorite characters, ideas, worlds, and moments from the Star Wars Universe.
- ISBN 9780810996786 ; Abrams Books; Limited Edition [3]
- ISBN 9781368076128 ; November 1 , 2010 ; Abrams Books ; standard hardcover [1]