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Birth
1912 (New Jersey)
Death
2005
Lived/Active
New York
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Illustrators
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| One of the successful illustrators in the mid-to-late-20th century, an
era of declining appreciation for traditional illustration, James Avati
survived professionally by turning from magazine art to covers for
sensational novels. Many of these books, descendants of the
popular pulp magazines during the war, had scenes of hair-raising
violence and sexuality that challenged middle class conservatism.
Of Avati, it was written that his "approach was honest and unblinkingly
realist (showing 500 of 1853 characters). |
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