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Article: Artwork
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Astronautics owes much of its existence to the arts. On the one hand, literary works by authors such as Jules Verne (1828-1905) were directly responsible for inspiring the founders of modern spaceflight; on the other hand, artists such as Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986)
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made spaceflight seem possible. When Bonestell's space art was first published in the 1940s and early 1950s, spaceflight to most people still belonged in the realm of comic books and pulp fiction. Bonestell, working with such great space scientists as Wernher von Braun, depicted space travel with such vivid reality that it suddenly no longer seemed so fantastic. Emerging as it did when the United States was first ...
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Article: What would you put in this space? Artists' answers ...
The Washington Times;
November 14, 1996 ;
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...Andrew Leddy is reversing the framing process: He asked eight artists to create works to fit his frames. This process may seem unusual, but to Mr. Leddy, it is quite natural: His business, after all, is frames, and his show, "Frames First," opened last week at his gallery in downtown Washington.
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