Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, the Fiction of Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison, Jacek Yerka Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, the Fiction of Harlan Ellison
Book Review: Amazing Artwork, Interesting Stories
Summary: 5 Stars
My son's art teacher shared this book with him and he had to have it immediately. We were lucky to snag a used copy at a great price.
The artwork on Jacek Yerka is really creative, full of illusions and imagination. It's right up my son's alley and he loves looking through for all the oddities.
Harlan Ellison's stories are all one page and accompany each illustration. The stories are just as quirky and imaginative as the pictures.
A great book for the creative minded.
Book Review: Bye This Book!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is some of the greatest art I have ever seen and along with feeling mystified at the different emotions I feel when I see this art, I become angry at inability to properly articulate how incredible Yerka's art really is. You've got to check this book out!
Book Review: Ellison is redundant in this book
Summary: 4 Stars
I admire Yerka's paintings, but I agree with some of the reviewers here that those stories by Ellison may distort or ruin what Yerka wanted to say. Those stories just don't go well with the paintings.
Ellison completely misses that warm Eastern-European feel that one can get from Yerka's paintings. That actually why some people from the western world may find it hard to get a feel of what Yerka tried to show. Just visit Yerka's official page on the internet!
As a comment to an earlier review by some reader (from December 16, 1997) I have to say that the car transformed to a lizard on the cover of the book is not Volkswagen beetle. The make of the car is "Pobeda", it was made in the 50s in USSR and Poland. Only people with high status in society could afford to have such a car then.
Book Review: Ellison ruins Yerka's vision
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a big fan of surrealism and fantastiqueism, and I love some science fiction (Stanislaw Lem, early Robert Heinlein, etc.). I've always liked Yerka. In this case, however, I liked every single painting less after reading the Ellison story inspired by it. Ellison's style is similar in both content and smartass writing style to the early works of Heinlein, but they destroy the mysterious, inexplicable, and most importantly, AMBIGUOUS quality of all of Yerka's paintings.Book Review: Fabulous. Compelling. Disturbing. Amazing.
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know enough of the right words to describe this book. It is a visual masterpiece, accompanied by glimpses into the twisted mind of Harlan Ellison via his interpretation of each picture. Jacek Yerka and Harlan Ellison: a perfect match, if you ask me.If you have trouble getting through some of Ellison's longer works, try this book. And even if you HATE Harlan Ellison, try this book. Nowhere have I seen such hauntingly wonderful illustrations. They stick with you. And sometimes, sometimes, Ellison's story sticks, too.