The Tiki paperback cover art thread - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 9:24 AM The reason WHY there was so little Tiki in paperback art is, I believe, not that the artists weren't into primitive art or Polynesian sculpture, but that the publishers went by one simple truth: Sex Sells! Just reading all the lurid sub-headers makes that obvious. Which does NOT explain why there were not more covers exploiting the Yin and Yang tension of the Wahine/Tiki combination. :) Which brings me back to my earlier, un-answered request, for which I still harbor some faint hope On 2010-06-20 11:24, bigbrotiki wrote: That author ROBERT CARSE wrote nautical adventure stories with titles like Castaway and Ports of Call, but not all had such cool covers. There is ONE paperback of his with a Moai on the cover, in the classic "half-face" style that was used on album covers like Ritual of the Savage and Hawaiian Eye (and then on the BOT), but I don't have the image, nor can I remember the title. Anybody here has it?

The reason WHY there was so little Tiki in paperback art is, I believe, not that the artists weren't into primitive art or Polynesian sculpture, but that the publishers went by one simple truth: Sex Sells! Just reading all the lurid sub-headers makes that obvious.

Which does NOT explain why there were not more covers exploiting the Yin and Yang tension of the Wahine/Tiki combination. :)

Which brings me back to my earlier, un-answered request, for which I still harbor some faint hope

On 2010-06-20 11:24, bigbrotiki wrote:
That author ROBERT CARSE wrote nautical adventure stories with titles like Castaway and Ports of Call, but not all had such cool covers. There is ONE paperback of his with a Moai on the cover, in the classic "half-face" style that was used on album covers like Ritual of the Savage and Hawaiian Eye (and then on the BOT), but I don't have the image, nor can I remember the title. Anybody here has it?

Post #538452 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 9:24 AM