Description: 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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Location: New York, New York
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Book Title: Little Book of Vargas
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Individual Artists / General, Military / World War II, General, Popular Culture, United States / General, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, History
Item Weight: 10.3 Oz
Author: Dian Hanson
Item Length: 6.6 in
Item Width: 4.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
