Various Pin-Up Titles for Inspiration (format varies)

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Peep-Machine Pin-Ups: 1940s-1950s Mutoscope Art
by Don Preziosi (Author)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: 49 MB
Publication Date: September 2006



Machines called Mutoscopes offered quick shows for a penny from 1895 until as late as the 1970s, flipping cards to create the impression of a "moving picture." Associated with amusement piers and parks, and men's restrooms, these machines were notorious as proprietors of cheap peeps. During the 1940s, the International Mutoscope Reel Company began to manufacture coin-operated vending machines that served up 5-1/4" x 3-1/4"cards for collectors, usually of "pin-up" material. These cards are widely collected today, and a wonderful source of inspiring low-brow artwork. This comprehensive collection of more than 250 images includes work by noted artists Zoe Mozert, Earl Moran, and Gil Elvgren, among many other signed and unsigned, talented portrayors of the female form. A value guide will assist collectors.

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The Art of Pin-up
Multilingual Edition by Dian Hanson (Author), Louis K. Meisel (Contributor), Sarahjane Blum (Contributor)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: 106.99 MB
Publication Date: October 2014



In the 15 years since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up—drawings, paintings, and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended for public display—was produced between 1920 and 1970 for use on calendars, magazine covers, and centerfolds. The majority of original paintings were discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing, making the surviving art that much more precious. Today its popularity is huge, and ripe for an equally huge and truly comprehensive Collector’s Edition.

Formidably sized, The Art of Pin-up is an impressive book that will be coveted by casual fans as well as hardcore pin-up collectors. The top 10 artists are profiled in depth. Each chapter opens with a tipped-in reproduction of an original calendar or magazine cover by that artist. The reproduction quality of the paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow—largely sourced from the original art—invites the viewer to trace the brushstrokes, while the exquisite period calendars, vintage prints, and original model photos document the artists’ creative process. Much of these ephemera were photographed on-site at the historic Brown & Bigelow Company, home to the world’s largest archive of vintage pin-up calendars.

In addition to the chapters on the 10 featured artists, the book includes thumbnail bios and representative art of 85 additional artists, the most complete compendium of pin-up artists ever compiled. All this adds up to a hard-to-beat book on this popular subject.

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The Little Book of Pin-Up Vargas: The War Years, 1940-1946
by Dian Hanson (Editor)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: 179.31 MB
Publication Date: December 2015



Alberto Vargas took over Esquire magazine’s monthly pin-up post in late 1940. By 1942, when the U.S. joined the war, he had more than a million ardent enlisted fans who carried his pin-ups in backpacks and duffel bags as reminders of the American girls they’d left behind. When Esquire was charged with obscenity over a particularly spicy pin-up in 1943 the military stepped in to fight for the Varga Girl, declaring her necessary to maintain the morale of young fighting men. Today these wartime pin-ups are the most collectible of Vargas’s work. Find them all in this pocket-sized delight.

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1000 Pin-Up Girls
Multilingual Edition by Peter Driben (Author)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: 93.23 MB
Publication Date: March 2016

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“Girls, Gags & Giggles,” ran publisher Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. While other magazines delivered the girl next door, Harrison’s publications banked on bad girls in satin and leather, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage.

Harrison lured his readers in with vibrantly painted covers by top pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss and, most famously, Peter Driben. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with every single cover from Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt, and Whisper, from 1942 to 1955, as well as interior spreads, featuring, among others, a budding Bettie Page. In an age when far more graphic material is the norm, 1000 Pin-Up Girls celebrates an era of pin-up and pulp style to fuel your erotic imagination.

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Malibu Cheesecake
by Olivia De Berardinis (Author, Illustrator), Joel Beren (Editor)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: 77.50 MB
Publication Date: August 2011



Subtitle: The Pinup Art of OLIVIA Over 100 new paintings, drawings, and studies. Comments by artist on technique, models, and the creative process. Interviews with: Hugh Hefner, Bettie Page, Dita Von Teese, and Margaret Cho.

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Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups + 2012 and 2013 Calendars
by Gil Elvgren (Illustrator), Charles G. Martignette (Editor), Louis K. Meisel (Editor)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: Total of share = 132.17 MB
Publication Date: January 2008



Gil's girls: The seminal pin-up artist Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren’s Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique—which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake"—involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.

"Glamour is back... TASCHEN offers us a look back at these calendar and advertisement goddesses of which Gil Elvgren is king." erotisme-fr.com, France Text in English, French, and German






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The Pin-Up Art of Archie Dickens: v. 2 by Archie Dickens
by Archie Dickens

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File Size: 35.24 MB
Publication Date: June 2005



The spry and devilishly creative pin-up elder-statesman Archie Dickens is back with a new compendium of cuties to delight an appreciative public. A contemporary of such artistic greats as Elvgren and Vargas, Mr. Dickens was still kicking into the new millennium, still making naughty portraits of young ladies in various states of undress - all with a sly smile and an innocent demeanor. Each illustration features a delightful damsel doing something perfectly ordinary, but in such an extraordinary way! Dickens makes these girls shine! A real must-have for pin-up fans, and those who look fondly at the vintage age eye candy!

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1000 Pin-Up Girls
Edition by Burkhard Riemschneider (Editor), Christian Goodden (Translator), Harald Hellmann (Contributor)

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File Format: PDF
File Size: 136.30 MB
Publication Date: September 2002



'Girls, Gags & Giggles""--this was publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up the American pin-up to the U.S. male. In the 1950s his girls magazines sold by the millions, before becoming icons of pulp and trash culture. These skillfully illustrated girls with their curvaceous forms and inviting lingerie soon overlook America's national dessert, in terms of popularity, and even developed considerable potential as a cultural export during the 1940s. ""Never show everything,"" was always the motto.

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Shameless Art: 20th Century Genre and the Artists That Defined It
by Tim Underwood (Editor), Cathy Fenner (Editor), Arnie Fenner (Editor)

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File Size: 12.01 MB
Publication Date: October 2010



Unrepentant, unapologetic, unbridled and under-appreciated, genre art from the first half of the 20th century reflected subconscious urges of a economically deprived and sexually depressed generation. This popular art set the stage for the advertised expression of today's more liberated consumer culture. Shameless Art explores the influential work of imaginative illustrators who helped create the visual language for everything from today's comic books, magazine and television advertising, as well as imaginative movies like Avatar and sensual films like Y Tu Mama Tambien. Featuring stunning art by such genre masters as Tom Lovell, Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Margaret Brundage, and Enoch Bolles, this beautifully produced full color collection mirrors mid-20th century masculine fantasies.

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The Golden Age of Pin-Up Art Book One
Italian Edition by Alberto Becattini (Author)

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File Format: PDF
Publication Date: December 1994







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