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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> <B>RUDOLPH BELARSKI (1900-1983)</B> noted for "pulp
fiction" and paperback detective images, was said to be "the perfect paperback
artist" by art editor Ken Stuart, of <I>The Saturday Evening Post</I>
in the mid-1950s.<BR>
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A master at building suspense through figure, perspective and color, Belarski
dazzled the newsstand browser with pictorial headlines of vital action
scenes pertaining to the inside 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.<BR>
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Belarski's career began in the 1920s, with the pioneering days of American
aviation. His best-remembered subjects, however, came along with the crime
story fascination in the 1930s: voluptuous dames in distress mixing it
up with square-jawed detectives and thugs. His science-fiction subjects
of this same time are astonishingly convincing; his constructions of the
25th century adapted microphones, lawnmowers and hubcaps as elements.<BR>
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In his usual timely fashion, Belarski veers in the 1950s away from the
slick world of melodrama towards a more natural, realistic world. A great
lover of camping and fishing, Belarski also painted a number of covers
for <I>Outdoor Life</I>.<BR>
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Understanding medium, palette, subject and time, Belarski captures America's
fickle ideals. As his illustrations soar alongside the growth of our history
of popular culture, so does the nostalgic trend that he spawned.</FONT></font><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="2" FACE="HELVETICA,ARIAL"><BR>
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<B>[This illustration appeared in: <I>The Synthetic Men of Mars</I>, by
Edgar Rice Burroughs, <I>Argosy</I> Jan 7, 1939, oil on canvas, 34 x 23.75"]</B>
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