Published from the 1950s through 1970s, their covers are colorful, kitschy, and anachronistic.
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The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
Pulp cover artists recognized the American appetite for lurid and violent imagery, and the Wolfsonian is exploring the social issues embedded in their illustrations in a new exhibition.
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The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and ’70s Mexico
The lurid art created for paperbacks in the 1960s and ’70s includes a cat man superhero surrounded by feral felines, a woman fleeing a cop while cradling a piglet, and a blonde vixen looking back in shock as a skeleton delivers her a letter.
