Rendezvous at the Empire 

Greg Hildebrandt painted "Rendezvous at the Empire" in the style of pulp magazine cover art. The woman in the painting is wearing a fur coat. The title, the pipe, and the setting reference old movies like "The Maltese Falcon" and the glamour of the Empire State Building during the 1930s and 1940s. The image is an updated take on the pulp covers of that time. Those old magazines provided a source of entertainment for the masses, much like the internet does today. Pulp magazines were the home of both genre fiction and pin-up art. Pin-up art had a profound effect on gender roles because it offered a view of sexuality that wasn't previously available. To understand the cultural impact of the pulp era, we can look at archives of old magazines and films. The modern art world is a product of these art movements of the past.