The Art of Pin Up by Dian HansonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the first time I have been able to hold, examine and read one of Taschen's big, XL Format books. In this one, text is in English, German, and French. Images are not duplicated and all captions are in English. The content is in three broad parts: history, significant artists, and miscellaneous artists. In the history, we find pin-up art starting with the calendars of the historic Brown & Bigelow Company, bomber nose-art, and brought home by WWII soldiery. The sections on each artist in this big slice of cheesecake are nicely prefaced with scrap-book like facsimiles of calendar pages, etc. Among the artists getting special treatment are Alberto Vargas, George Petty, Art Frahm and his fetishistic take on failing panty elastic, pin-up artist and model Zoë Mozert, and Gil Elvgren, friend and colleague at B&B to Norman Rockwell..
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