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In the pages of **Pulp Art** you'll find: * Still-existing original paintings, sharply focused and vibrantly colored, from artists Virgil Finlay, J. Allen St. John, Rafael de Soto, Hannes Bok, and many others. * Eighteen essays by collectors and experts in the pulp field, including Forrest J. Ackerman and Sam Moskowitz, as well as relatives of legendary pulp figures, such as Danton Burroughs and John de Soto. * Critical discussions of individual paintings and the major themes of pulp magazines, such as science fiction and fantasy, heroes and detectives, and aviation and western pulps. The term __pulp fiction__ has always had a certain resonance; but it is the art work--bold, energized, dramatic, garishly colorful, and frequently grotesque--that has made pulp magazines memorable to so many people. **Pulp Art** is about the artists who created the incredible paintings for those pulp covers. Because so many of these illustrators have long been forgotten, and their original canvases long ago consigned to garbage heaps, it is only in recent years that the surviving paintings have been rediscovered and have found their way into serious private collections. At last, preserved in this vol

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Author
Lesser, Robert
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9781402730351
Category
art
Subjects
Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction, Mystery
Rating
4.22 / 5 (14 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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