Fantasy Art Books

[Devor]

Does anybody have a recommendation for a fantasy art coffee table type book?

Nothing makes me go "Wow!" quite like a beautiful piece of art. I follow a few artwork sites on a facebook. But I want something I can flip through, and the old D&D books sitting on my shelf just don't do it for inspiration.

I would even be okay with video game or some other franchise art, but only if the book is all about showing off the artwork.

Does anybody have any recommendations?

 

[Philip Overby]

The Art of Ice and Fire book was one I used to want. The Art of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire: Brian Wood, Patricia Meredith, Fantasy Flight Games: 9781589942189: Amazon.com: Books

 

[taiwwa]

I flipped through the Mass Effect art book in a comic book store the other day. It was actually better than the game (though, to be fair, I wasn't that big a fan of Mass Effect).

Where Mass Effect is actually too realistic and detailed, the art book had nice impressionist bent to it, and they explained a lot of the inspiration behind the scenes, which wasn't apparent in the game at all.

 

[Julian S Bartz]

The art of Blizzard is a great coffee table style fantasy art book.
The Art of Blizzard : Hardback : Blizzard Entertainment : 9781608870271

Also if you are a Zelda fan, the Hyrule historia.
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia : Hardback : Akira Himekawa, Patrick Thorpe, Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma : 9781616550417