Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography Beyond the Fantasy Limited Edition

"Amano is an artist for the next century...He has taken all that he has learned from anime, from American comics, from a hundred traditions, and he moves forward with it, scaling the wall between fine art and illustration, between East and West, between yesterday and tomorrow. Amano is a storyteller. His paintings are stories. His mind is magic: and here he gives us a kaleidoscope of images to take us into the future, to teach us about our past."-Neil Gaiman

"Amano originally developed his highly stylized imagery in the service of anime and video-game design, but its influence today is unarguably visible in the 'Superflat' cosmos of Takashi Murakami, Mariko Mori, and a handful of other Japanese artists who have lately risen to international stardom...While the majority of Western artists who employ the imagery of popular culture do so through appropriation, Amano needs no source material other than his own."--Artforum International