This title is acknowledged as the premiere showcase for imaginative illustration, sculpture, and Fine Art. Challenging, controversial, educational, and irreverent, the award-winning ''Spectrum'' series reinforces both the importance and prevalence of fantastic art in today's culture. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium, both traditional and digital. The best artists from the United States, Europe, China, Australia, South America and beyond have gathered into the only annual devoted exclusively to works of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and the surreal, making ''Spectrum'' one of the year's highly most anticipated books. Featured in ''Spectrum 18'' are 300 diverse visionaries, many of them world-renowned, including Michael Whelan, Sam Weber, Donato Giancola, Leo & Diane Dillon, Kinuko Craft, James Gurney, Peter de Seve. With art from books, graphic novels, video games, films, galleries, and advertising, ''Spectrum'' is both an electrifying art book for fans and an invaluable resource for clients looking for bright new talent.The entire field is discussed in an invaluable, found-nowhere-else ''Year In Review''. Contact information for each artist is included in a handy index. Often imitated, never equaled, ''Spectrum 18'' continues the freshness and excellence that was established seventeen years ago.