Pulp Art: Original Cover Paintings for the Great American Pulp Magazines PDF
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This 2005 edition published by arrangement with Robert Lesser. Published by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 © 1997 by Robert Lesser Distributed in Canada by Sterling Publishing c/o Canadian Manda Group, 165 Dufferin Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 3H6 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Sterling ISBN 14027-3035-7 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Manufactured in China by Midas Acknowledgments The author wishes to express his unreserved gratitude to the following contributors, pulp-art scholars and collectors, and editors and designers for their help in making this book both possible and very special: Forrest J. Ackerman, Sam Moskowitz, Shirley Steeger, Steve Kennedy, Robert Weinberg, Fred Cook, Walker Martin, James Van Hise, John Locke, Capel N. McCutcheon, Albert Tonik, Jack Deveny, Charles G. Martignette, George Berger, Joseph Gaspari, Carolyn Naporlee, Jim Steranko, John de Soto, Zina Saunders, Danton Burroughs, Darrell C. Richardson, Charles Crane, Robert Barrett, Walt Reed, Roger Reed, Will Murray, Alison M. Scott, Linda Dobb, Rush Miller, Norman Brosterman, Geroge Hocutt, Bruce Cassidy, Ray Bradbury, Tom Lovell, Roger Nelson, John McLaughlin, Tom Johnson, John Gunnison, Frank Hamilton, Tony Goodstone, Richard Merkin, Rafael de Soto, Pierre Boogaerts, Anthony Tolin, Clarence Peacock, Gene Nigra, Mel and Stephen Korshak, Ralph Kaschi, Peter Garriock, Paul Herman, Bob Hyde, Richard Greene, Lyn Hickman, Rusty Hevelin, George Hagenaur, Jerry and Helen de la Ree, Jane and Howard Frank, Randall Hawkins, Phil Weiss, Bruce Bergstrom, Frank Robinson, Jack Juka, Jerry Weist, Thomas Horvitz, Daniel Mark Fay, Cole Springer, Jerry Schattenburg, Grover DeLuca, Leonard Robbins, Ben Chapman, Leon Sevilla, Robert Hammerquist, David Kimball, Russ Cochran, Bill Thailing, Don Hutchison, Beverly and Ray Sachs, Irma Rudin, Herm Schreiner, Peter Manesis, Dino Petrocelli, Bill Morse, Dr. Alfred Collette and Domenic J. Iacono of Syracuse University, David Alexander, Gloria Stoll Karn, Joseph Di Lessio, Dennis East, Jim Gerlach, Bradleigh Vinson, Sheldon Jaffery, Nick Carr, Robert Sampson, Gary Lovisi, Henry Steeger, William Papalia, Mike Avallone, William Feeny, Frederic Taraba, Joe Parente, Ryerson Johnson, Emil Petaja, Norma Dent, Peter Osborne, George McWhorter, Victor Dricks, Frank J. Finamore, Helene Berinsky, and Gregory Suriano. There is the theory in current political aesthetics that a work authored by only one person is a fascist work of art because it dictates a single point of view; refuses to permit the inclusion of a democratic sampling of important facts unknown to the single author; and ignores creative insights that could illuminate dark corners and increase the body weight of information. This theory is accepted here. Other voices are happily and proudly included in this book. They are those who should be thanked for having collected, studied, created, and preserved an inheritance of art for future generations to enjoy. Interspersed throughout the text are superb and insightful essays by those who have lived and breathed the pulps for decades. Contents A CKNOWLEDGMENTS I : P C P A NTRODUCTION OPULIST ULTURE AND ULP RT ESSAYS The Pulps: Their Weaknesses Were Their Strengths by Roger T. Reed The Cover Artists and Their Publishers by Fred Cook Yes, I Was There by Shirley Steeger S F , S F , F : P A CIENCE ICTION CIENCE ACT AND ANTASY AINTED NSWERS ESSAYS When Pulp Art Was in Flower by Forrest J. Ackerman Collecting Pulp Paintings: Dramatic Imagery and Color by Steve Kennedy The Science Fiction Pulps by Sam Moskowitz T N K HE EW NIGHTS ESSAYS The Pulps and Their Illustrators: A Brief Survey by Walt Reed The Lure of the Pulps: An Artist’s Perspective by Jim Steranko Remembering Rafael de Soto by John de Soto, AIA T N S HE OBLEST AVAGE ESSAYS Important Pulp Paintings in the Burroughs Collection by Danton Burroughs A Conversation with J. Allen St. John, Dean of Fantasy Illustrators by Darrell C. Richardson The Paper They’re Printed On by Alison M. Scott L T ADIES IN ERROR ESSAYS Painting the Story by John Locke The Art that Dared To Be Wild by James Van Hise Remembering Norman Saunders by Zina Saunders T D D : A , W , W A O ARE THE EVIL VIATION AR AND ESTERN RT ESSAYS The Cover Art of the Air-War Pulps by George Hocutt Editing the Western Pulps by Bruce Cassidy Where Have All the Paintings Gone? by Charles G. Martignette A I • V P : L P ’ E , 1929-46 PPENDIX OX OPULI ETTERS TO THE ULPS DITORS A II • O P P : A C ’ G PPENDIX RIGINAL ULP AINTINGS OLLECTOR S UIDE A III • A ’ B PPENDIX RTISTS IOGRAPHIES B IBLIOGRAPHY I NDEX
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