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windupguy

Baby, it's cold outside!

Feb 21, 2011 12:30

After a couple of days of unseasonably warm weather in the 50s last week, the Upstate New York weather went back to normal with freezing cold temperatures and a bit of snow.

Since this has been an unusually brutal winter this year, with snow visiting practically every state in the union at some point, and serious accumulations in quite a few places ( Read more... )

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Pin-ups sharonsays February 25 2011, 10:43:15 UTC

A terrific and diverse array of pin-ups. (Well, Seraphim is downright scary, but I suppose I can see the allure.) Do you have Mark Gabor's book, The Pin-Up: A Modest History? It's the one with the first Varga girl on the front. Wonderful as art, history and social commentary.

Re: Pin-ups windupguy February 25 2011, 13:41:38 UTC

Thanks for the comments, and thanks for being the first to comment on my journal! There will be more postings of pin-up art and related materials, so check back now and then.

I have heard of the book you mention, but haven't seen it. I have a collection of Vargas and a great book on Elvgren, plus so many other books on art, artists and comics that I'm starting to think about thinning my overloaded shelves.

I do see pin-up art as social commentary, or at least a sociological time capsule that can tell us a lot about the various eras. That's also true of other forms of popular culture. and again, you'll be seeing a lot of that here!