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The little book of pin-up Vargas :
the war years /

Hanson, Dian,

The little book of pin-up Vargas : the war years / Alberto Vargas. Dian Hanson. - 190 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 18 cm.

The pin-ups that won the war: The Varga Girl was the the most popular pin-up of World War 2 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 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 the military stepped in the fight for The Varga Girl, declaring her necessary for morale. Today these wartime pin-ups are the most collectible of Vargas' work, and we've collected them all in this compact, affordable 192-page volume.


Parallel text in English, German and French.

9783836520201 3836520206


Vargas, Alberto, 1896-1982.


Pinup art--United States.
Women in art.

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