The Art Of Pin-Up The Art Of Pin-Up

(Taschen Verlag) Dian Hanson, Sarahjane Blum, Louis Meisel
Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3,5 kg, 548 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-7767-0
Multilingual edition: German, English, French

Dian Hanson's wonderful world of pin-ups

The slightly puckered girls, who originally adorned the lockers of soldiers and workers as calendar girls and solace for the soul, only attracted the interest of a few fanatical collectors at the time. In the meantime, they have made it into the most prestigious museums in the world. Pictures by greats of pin-up art such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty or Gil Elvgren, which in 1996 could still be had for $2,000, now cost $200,000 and more. Out of politeness alone, even on their way to museum recognition, the prettily painted girls have not refrained from occasionally stumbling to allow brief glimpses of their panties and thus their core business: teasing a little, showing a little leg and inspiring the imagination - all within a reasonably demure framework, of course!

Based on our acclaimed XXL compendium The Art of Pin-up, this more affordable edition gathers nearly 100 pin-up artists and presents the top 10 of this art form in detailed individual portraits. Each chapter documents the creative process with historical documents - photos of the models who served as models, contemporary prints, etc. - many of which were photographed at the legendary Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company, home to the world's largest archive of vintage pin-up calendars.

The volume is rounded off by a "pin-up encyclopaedia" in which 85 other artists are introduced with short biographies and representative works. The largest compendium of pin-up art ever compiled!