 "Jeepers
Peepers!"
Introduction by Louis K. Meisel
Collectors Press, 2006
Pin-ups of pretty girls
is as American as apple pie. Actually, it's more than that. Paintings of
the female form has been around since the beginning of time. Even ancient
cavemen realized no one really cared about their "hunting water buffalo"
rock paintings. Nope, most guys wanted to see something more along the
lines of "cavewoman in loincloth on beach." And it's been the same way
every since. Only in the 20th century, and the advent of the pin-up, did
they perfect it. Jeepers Peepers captures the golden age
of pin-up art--the period of 1940's and 50's. This is the era when good-girl
pin-ups could be seen on the wall of every army barrack during World War
Two. In fact, pin-ups were seen as patriotic. It gave the boys a constant
reminder what they were fighting for and what would be waiting for them
when they got back (in a perfect world that is). These were glamorous girls-next-door
who did mind if you caught a glimpse of their stockings and garters. They
were playful, fun, and sexy. They represented the ideal gal. The gal every
bachelor dreams about every night. Jeepers Peepers features
work from pin-up masters like Gil Elvgren, Rolf Armstrong,
Art Frahm, Earl Moran, Zoe Mozert,
and others. The only conspicuous absence is that of Alberto Vargas.
Jeepers
Peepers is a great introduction into the world of pin-up art. For
more reading, see The Best of American Girlie
Magazines by Burkhard Riemschneider & Harald
Hellmann, Calendar Girl: Sweet
& Sexy Pin-Ups of the Postwar Era by Max Allan Collins,
The
Pin-Up: A Modest History by
Mark Gabor, and Pin
Up Poster Book--the Billy DeVorss Collection by Max Allan
Collins.
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