A master at building suspense through figure, perspective, and color, Rudolph Belarski dazzled the newsstand browser with pictorial headlines of vital action scenes pertaining to the interior story. In doing so, he sold magazines and books to a drama-craving audience, and propelled publishing's mass markets, thus infiltrating American minds with the trends and fashions of pop culture. His remarkable versatility as an artist can be seen in the range of his published work in pulp magazines, his exciting paintings appearing on the covers of Thrilling Mystery, Wings, and War Birds, as well as The Phantom Detective, Mystery Book, Argosy, and Western Round-Up.
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This review is from: Walter M. Baumhofer Pulp Art Masters (Paperback)
Fans of pulp magazines and the art that graced them will find this, the first volume in the proposed "Pulp Art Masters" series a must have. This oversized paperback volume presents roughly 350 color cover reproductions, arranged by the various genres Belarski's illustrated (detective, air war, weird menace, etc.). The book is nicely laid out with annotations of various detail and worth along the outside edge of each page. The color reproduction is rich and sharply focused and clean up of the original pulp covers (many of which were no doubt flaked, creased, torn and otherwise marred) is masterful. In fact, the images reproduced here are probably the best these cover painting have ever looked. This is a wealth of pulp history and a great beginning for a series that is supposed to eventually include volumes devoted to Walter Baumhofer (illustrator of the Doc Savage covers) and George and Jerome Rozen (illustrators of The Shadow and Wu Fang among others). Great volume. Greater series (if all goes as planned).
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After reading all of the 5 star reviews, I bought this, but I was disappointed over the small sizes of so many of the reproductions. In fact, there's only one illustration reproduced in something resembling the actual size of the original pulp cover. There's a tremendous amount of white space on the pages -- a better layout design could have utilized this space to increase the sizes of the illustrations. The printing itself is just okay. As a comparison, the covers of the Nostalgia Ventures Doc Savage series look much better than anything in this volume. Obviously there's no other choice if you want to have a book of this fine artist's work, but let's hope that someday someone else puts together a book that really does Baumhofer justice.
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For fans of great illustration,
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A great coffee table book for fans of illustration. A lot of great images to look at, if some are kind of small. But there's over 300 so, you can't beat that for the price. Check out the author's website as well if you're interested in Pulp Magazines.
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