What do all these swell adjectives have in common? They all describe that brow literature, PULP FICTION.
The pulps, magazines and paperback novels, were North America's favorite form of escape for nearly sixty years. From the 1890s to the 1950s, pulp fiction delivered lavish cover art, fantastic illustrations and action packed stories for the public. Although entertaining, the majority of the population that bought these publications thought very little of them; they used and discarded pulp fiction like a dirty condom. It was not quality art. However, a few disturbed individuals observed that, although these pulps are NOT masterpieces they deserve recognition as a form of modern art. I admit, I am one of these individuals, I have an
The pulps, magazines and paperback novels, were North America's favorite form of escape for nearly sixty years. From the 1890s to the 1950s, pulp fiction delivered lavish cover art, fantastic illustrations and action packed stories for the public. Although entertaining, the majority of the population that bought these publications thought very little of them; they used and discarded pulp fiction like a dirty condom. It was not quality art. However, a few disturbed individuals observed that, although these pulps are NOT masterpieces they deserve recognition as a form of modern art. I admit, I am one of these individuals, I have an