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Book notes: 'The Flights of Icarus'

Featuring skeletons, bird-homes, a big glowing yellow jellybean. The usual.

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Adam Rowe
Jul 02, 2021
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The Flights of Icarus is a pretty well-known art collection published by Roger Dean’s publishing company Dragon’s World in 1977, by Donald Lehmkuhl, edited by Martyn Dean and Roger Dean.

It’s divided into seven chapters, each introduced with a couple pages of weird koans like “Creation is seeking Reality,” followed by one big image per page, with the ar…

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