Product Description

The first two volumes that chronicled the unique art and design of Roger Dean were met with huge critical and popular success. Views (1975) went straight to number one on the bestseller list and went on to sell more than a million copies, and its successor Magnetic Storm (1984) enjoyed similar success. Dragon's Dream makes up the Roger Dean trilogy. A more ambitious work than its predecessors, it celebrates Roger's work from the last twenty years. This encompasses a panoramic dreamscape of original paintings; album covers, logos, and stage designs for bands including living legends Yes as they celebrate their 40th anniversary; virtual worlds, characters, and logos for computer games companies such as Psygnosis, Bullet-Proof Software, and Tetris; and concepts and designs for both opera and animated movies. Finally, there is a review of Roger's lifelong and prophetic passion for eco-friendly architecture, featuring the visionary prototypes with which he has addressed the topical issue of sustainable living in the twenty-first century. The first published collection of Roger Dean's work in more than twenty years, Dragon's Dream celebrates the enduring vision of one of the most significant artists of our time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #173648 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-01
• Released on: 2008-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author

Roger Dean is internationally acclaimed as an artist and designer whose evocative and visionary images created a new genre. Made popular through the medium of album covers and posters, his work has sold in excess of 100 million copies. Roger became widely known in the 1970s for his album cover designs for Yes—including the classic logo now in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London—and a poll of Rolling Stone readers selected five of his designs in the top twenty best album covers of all time.

Customer Reviews

The first collection of Roger Dean's in more than 20 years
The first collection of Roger Dean's in more than 20 years, Dragon's Dream plays catch-up with this prolific and popular artist. His first two collections sold in the millions, and there is no doubt this one will enjoy similar success. But, far from being a thrown together collection of his art, this book includes a lot of commentary about his life, the work he did and the thought process behind it. There are also many preliminary sketches, showing the progression from concept to finished product. The book is divided into chapters covering either companies he worked for (the computer game company Psygnosis), the bands and rock festivals (Asia, Yes, and Nearfest) or his other interests in movies and opera and sustainable architecture. If your only remembrance of Roger Dean is that of his album covers, this book will open your eyes to a multitude of other work he's produced in the last two decades.

"the grand epiphany"
It has been many years since I sat with Roger Dean in San Francisco. It was the release of his second oeuvre, Magnetic Storm. Thta book was an amazing work that I felt certain could never be topped............well, I was wrong. This volume, is so full of ideas, text, images, and more, it is scarcely to be contained between it's two covers. It is more than I could have ever expected frankly. It defies words and can only be experienced. So, that being said, get a copy and do so.

Not Disappointed
This book is a great value. I've owned a few coffee-table art books, & this one is a keeper. Any fan of atmospheric fantasy art depicting nature will appreciate this publication. The price is right, so I purchased two & gave one as a gift to a friend of mine who, like me, is an avid fan of the progressive rock band "Yes". This work details many of Roger's commercial endeavor's in "new media" (computer games) & logos / company branding. Towards the end there's many pages dedicated to his architectural ideas. One thing that struck me was the comment (paraphrased): "If there's a piece that's still in Roger's studio, it is always subject to additional modifications." When this fellow has an idea, it becomes a study that remains a work-in-progress for years . . . often decades. I was struck by the number & complexity of sketches & mock-ups that Roger does as he fleshes out his ideas. When viewing Roger's imaginative landscapes, I often I think to myself "This looks like a very lonely, isolated & perhaps hostile place, but I'd love to take a long vacation there!"