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1000 Pin-Up Girls
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for 1000 Pin-Up Girls
Hardcover. Girls, Gags & Giggles" - this was Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up the American pin-up to the U.S. male. In the 1950s his girlie magazines sold by the millions, before becoming icons of pulp and trash culture. These skilfully illustrated girls with their curvaceous forms and inviting lingerie soon overtook America's national dessert. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: AJCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 267 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1306.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1306g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836520508
SKU
V9783836520508
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-36
Reviews for 1000 Pin-Up Girls
To look at these pictures is to remember that there was a time when taking off your clothes was a potent gesture, when the mere fact of a naked woman could be thrilling.