Full view of oil on gesso masonite panel
The artists signature lower right
The painting as it appeared on the cover of the 1958 Fawcett Gold Medal Giant paperback Teen-Age Terror
The aptly titled Teen-Age Terror shows a lurid, youth gone wild, over the top image of a highly sensationalized girl gang initiation. In this oil-on-masonite cover painting, American illustrator James Alfred Meese captured the moral panic over juvenile delinquency that was a focal point of American culture in the 1950s, most notably explored in films like Rebel Without a Cause and Blackboard Jungle. The work was created as the cover of a purported "true crime" expose into "the inside story of juvenile delinquency told in actual cases of violence and sex," and the image is a masterpiece of scandalous pulp-fiction paperback art.
Detail
Framed view
Frame corner profile
Back of paperback slug line text
verso view before framing
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