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Alternating pages of paintings and descriptive accounts catalogue the haunting, horrifying sights that populate the nightmarish terrain of Hell. Somber scenes shrouded in darkness and a confederacy of grotesquely contorted souls are rendered in vivid color as Barlowe travels through Hell's landscape and ultimately to Dis, the Underworld's cancerous capital city. Barlowe's Inferno serves simultaneously as searing rumination on the nature of evil and human fate, metaphor for the cruelties and indignities suffered here on Earth, and ultimately as singular testament to the artistic and visionary power of human imagination.","brand":"EP","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ NEW","offer_id":45833995223213,"sku":"EP9781648374357NW","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover \/ ACCEPTABLE","offer_id":45833995255981,"sku":"EP9781648374357AC","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ VERY GOOD","offer_id":45833995288749,"sku":"EP9781648374357VG","price":71.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ LIKE NEW","offer_id":45833995321517,"sku":"EP9781648374357LN","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ GOOD","offer_id":45833995354285,"sku":"EP9781648374357GD","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/9134\/1997\/files\/51g5NqcCezL.jpg?v=1773939926"},{"product_id":"expedition","title":"Expedition","description":"The Most Important Travel Book in the 24th Century\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Initial Creature Concept artist of AVATAR The book that Discovery Channel's ALIEN PLANET was based upon\u003cbr\u003eNew York, March 24, 2366-Five years to the day after returning to Earth, Wayne Douglas Barlowe had published his collection of paintings, drawings, and sketches made during the first manned expedition to the planet Darwin IV. Now back in print after years secluded in the collections of ardent followers, the public can once again stroll through the exotic images of life on that distant planet. Barlowe's exquisite renderings and detailed notes from the far reaches of time will transport you light years into the future.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is also available from Echo Point Books in paperback, ISBN 1635619521.","brand":"EP","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ NEW","offer_id":44345987268781,"sku":"EP9781635619515NW","price":59.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ VERY GOOD","offer_id":45833996697773,"sku":"EP9781635619515VG","price":59.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ ACCEPTABLE","offer_id":45833996730541,"sku":"EP9781635619515AC","price":59.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ GOOD","offer_id":45833996763309,"sku":"EP9781635619515GD","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover \/ LIKE NEW","offer_id":45833996796077,"sku":"EP9781635619515LN","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/9134\/1997\/files\/71Y2hRuCLOL.jpg?v=1773939957"},{"product_id":"brushfire-illuminations-from-the-inferno","title":"Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno","description":"A Continuation of the Hellish Studies Undertaken in Inferno\n\nFew mortals could survive a trip to Hell and back. Despite recounting his own journey to the Underworld in his Inferno, artist Wayne Barlowe—American Book Award and Hugo nominee, character designer for Galaxy Quest, Hellboy, Avatar, and other films—was unable to fully exorcise the terrible sights from his mind. In Brushfire he continues the explorations first undertaken in Inferno, presenting unique studies of some of the most significant entities and places encountered during his sojourn in Hell. \nWith brief written introductions and paintings in full color, Barlowe introduces readers to Hell's terrible figures, with portraits of the demons Sargatanas, Baron Faraii, and the Decurion. He watches flies terrifyingly assemble into Prince Beelzebub, and resists the perverse sensuality of a pelvic-spiked succubus. He encounters the great general Hannibal Barca and the Daughters of Lucifer cult, and visits Mount Grigori, the flesh-and-bone monastery of Azazel, and the enormous stables of Yen Wang. Barlowe's vivid, richly detailed renderings present the inhumanly contorted bodies, the dark and fiery Hellscape, and the disconcerting details of his own harrowing experience touring the land of the damned. \n\"Many people think of Hell as a place for the dead,\" writes Barlowe. \"They are sorely wrong. Hell is very much alive.\" In these exquisitely disquieting pages the essential truth of his statement grows ever more vibrant.\n\nPraise for Wayne Barlowe's Inferno: \n\"Wayne Barlowe's Inferno is an awesome visual work, taking us into a contorted landscape of the damned which Dante himself could never have imagined.\" —Director James Cameron (Titanic) \n\n\"Wayne Barlowe's Inferno is a dangerous book. Human nightmares rear out of scale in this sulphurous landscape. Here every breath burns your insides and light flickers in perpetual agony. The Beast has found an architect. —Director Guillermo Del Toro (Chronos \u0026amp; Mimic) \n\n\"A treasury of superlative art  . . . This book is dynamite.\" —Tanith Lee \n\n\"Wayne Barlowe conjures the Inferno with Boschian particularity. This is a unique volume by an extraordinary artist.\" —Clive Baker \n\n\"One scents flavors and tinctures not only of Gustave Doré and John Martin, but also of Klimt, Blake, and even Turner at his most savage. However, the paintings are unique to themselves and demonstrate the artist at his most sublime—and terrifying.\" —Tanith Lee","brand":"EP","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ NEW","offer_id":45834071507117,"sku":"EP9781648374371NW","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback \/ VERY GOOD","offer_id":45834071539885,"sku":"EP9781648374371VG","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback \/ GOOD","offer_id":45834071572653,"sku":"EP9781648374371GD","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback \/ LIKE NEW","offer_id":45834071605421,"sku":"EP9781648374371LN","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback \/ ACCEPTABLE","offer_id":45834071638189,"sku":"EP9781648374371AC","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/9134\/1997\/files\/51FRazdUnkL.jpg?v=1773939936"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.echopointbooks.com\/collections\/wayne-barlowe.oembed","provider":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}