Taschen has done it again! They've put together
an outstanding, eye-popping collection of covers and interior
art from vintage men's magazines from the early 20th century--nearly
1,000 images!
This sumptuous collection (most full-color
and full page images) features classic pin-up art and erotica
from men's magazines around the world, including Paris--the
cradle of print erotica--as well as "model study" magazines,
Tijuana Bible porn, spicy
pulps of the 1930s, American detective and nudist
magazines, and much more.
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More rare and amazing covers and interior
artwork from around the world, documenting the evolution
and explosion of men's magazines after WWII. Here are exposès of celebrity sin in the "scandal magazines," John Willie's
fetishistic Bizarre publications, the meteoric rise of Playboy,
sleazy pulp digests, beefcake and cheesecake in the 1950s,
and more. Includes a special section on the top five American
cover girls, Diane Webber, June Wilkinson, Jayne
Mansfield, Bettie Page, and
Marilyn Monroe.
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This traces the explosion of new American
men's magazines following the redefinition of U.S. obscenity
laws in the late 1950s. It examines the enormous impact
of Playboy, not only on American
titles, but on magazines worldwide.
Over 400 full color pages of vintage covers
and interiors and a well-researched text profiling quirky
publishers and artists, individual magazines, and the place
of it all in the "swinging sixties" culture. Includes a
long chapter on the "Sweats," men's adventure mags, and
a close look at the art of Bill Ward.
Plus lots on nudist magazines.
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Covering a distinctly different, more risquè
side of men's magazine publishing in the "swingin' sixties,"
this concentrates on the emergence of California's specialty
magazine industry and how it spawned the state's multi-billion
dollar sex industry of today.
Also includes fetish masters Elmer Batters
and Irving Klaw; the specialty magazines of England; and
Sweden and Denmark's emergence as the new powers in European
publishing. Over 400 full color pages of magazine covers
and interiors.
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