SAVAGE ART 20TH CENT GENRE ARTIST DEFINED IT HC
(W) ARNIE FENNER (A) Various (CA) Na
Now at a special sale price! Savage Art showcases the popular period illustration which prefigured and helped create the violent visual language in today's popular aboveground cinema, comic books, and ultra-violent multi-million copy video games. Featuring disturbing illustration by pulp artists Walter Baumhofer, Rafael de Soto, Jerome Rozen, and others, this beautifully produced full-color collection documents Depression-era masculine violence, in fantasy and reality, as depicted on the covers of popular literature.
SHAMELESS ART 20TH CENT GENRE ARTIST DEFINED IT HC
(W) ARNIE FENNER (A) Various (CA) Na
Now at a special sale price! Unrepentant, unapologetic, unbridled and under-appreciated, genre art from the first half of the 20th century reflected subconscious urges of a economically deprived and sexually depressed generation. This popular art set the stage for the advertised expression of today's more liberated consumer culture. Shameless Art explores the influential work of imaginative illustrators who helped create the visual language for everything from today's comic books, magazine and television advertising, as well as imaginative movies like Avatar and sensual films like Y Tu Mama Tambien.
STRANGE DAYS ALIENS ADVENTURERS DEVILS & DAMES POSTERBOOK
(W) ARNIE FENNER (A) Various (CA) Na
Now at a special sale price! For a quarter of a century, pulp magazines were the most popular entertainment medium in America. Their sensational and often lurid cover illustrations were considered low-grade trash by the literary and artistic standards of their day, but time has a funny way of changing things. Strange Days presents 32 full-color, framable examples of this gaudy but appealing genre. Included are works by some of its most renowned artists, including Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Edd Cartier, Margaret Brundage, Jerome Rozen, Enoch Bolles, and Walter Baumhoffer. Presented in an oversized 11" x 15" format and printed on heavy stock, Strange Days is a must-have collection for any pulp or period art fan.