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Title: Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulp by Douglas Ellis ISBN: 1-886937-74-5 Publisher: Adventure House Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A risque presentation of erotic art
Comment: Compiled by Douglas Ellis and an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal and academic American Popular History reference collections, Uncovered: The Hidden Art Of The Girlie Pulps is a risque presentation of the erotic art of the "girlie pulp magazines" the were published in the 1920's and 1930's. The predecessors to the "girly magazines" of today, some of these pulp magazine titles were so racy (according to the standards of the time) that they were seized in police raids. The informatively presented story of these magazines (printed and marketed simply because sex sells), is enhanced with an extensive gallery selection of full-color pin-up images and is what distinguishes Uncovered: The Hidden Art Of The Girlie Pulps as a unique book of erotica images that pushed the envelope of social mores of their era.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulp"
Comment: UNCOVERED is the kind of book that revives that old line people used to use with PLAYBOY magazine: "I don't know about you, but I just buy it for the writing." In fact, UNCOVERED is a perfect balance of pulp-magazine scholarship and wild pin-up style cover illustrations, impeccably reproduced in full color.
I've been following Douglas Ellis' work for quite a long time now, and it's always been first class. With this one, he's achieved the perfect balance of art and story, sharing the history of the '30s girlie fiction magazines and their creators with a breeziness that belies what must've been an incredible amount of research, and sharing also some of the rarest and most appealing pulp covers I've ever seen.
You don't have to know anything about pulp magazines to enjoy UNCOVERED. Anyone who enjoys classic pinup art or weird American pop culture will find this opulent book to be a great addition to his or her home library as well. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Spicy History
Comment: This is an outstanding anthology of cover art from the depression-era "girlie pulps" by such highly worthy (and undeservedly obscure) artists as H.J. Ward, Norm Saunders, and Enoch Bolles, among many others. To the best of my knowledge there's no other great source of their work in print (especially Bolles), but they're very well served here, and very little of the work seen here is reprinted elsewhere. The text is diligent, thorough, well-written, and interesting, covering the rise and fall of the magazine niche-industry that produced these amazing visual works; it is scholarly and will be of great interest and service to students of the subject, but the broader appeal- pun intended- is in the more than four hundred color images. These are beautifully reproduced at a generous size, and on slick, high quality pages. The overall design of the book is also excellent.
I'd like to see another volume, perhaps including some of the interior art, if it's worth seeing. I've also been waiting for years for someone to do "The Art Of Enoch Bolles"- how about it, Mr. Ellis?
The author's review below is very informative and interesting, with much more information about this worthy book.
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Title: It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps by Adam Parfrey, Mort Künstler, Bill Devine, Josh Alan Friedman, David Saunders ISBN: 0922915814 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Belarski Pulp Art Masters by Rudolph Belarski ISBN: 1886937761 Publisher: Adventure House Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction by Thomas Campbell, Nancy Armstrong, Jason Rekulak ISBN: 0762412569 Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines by Peter Haining ISBN: 1556523890 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward by Alex Chun, Bill Ward ISBN: 1560975318 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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