25/11/07 10:00 Filed in:
World
| Culture
| Fashion
| Society
| Pop-Culture
Israel is not huge on Pinups and, to me,
as an Israeli, it's a bit of a
surprise.
A fact that is well
known to Israelis, is that Israel has a
long history of mimicking fashion and
commercial trends. Hardly a leader in
it's own cultural right, Israel used to
mimic Europe in the 40's, 50's and 60's.
But as the political and financial
scales tipped in America's favor,
American business models and fashion
trends have become more and more popular
in Israel. As fashion and pop culture
are inextricably linked, one can
understand what African American pop
culture is doing in Israel and why
women's role-models become Carrie
Bradshaw.
So Why Aren't Pinups Having their big
comeback in Israel?
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Tags: Israeli pinups, 50's fashion trend, cheesecake fashions, Macao, 1950, Hello Kitty, pop-culture, pop art
19/11/07 10:00 Filed in:
Holidays
| Artists
I was really hoping on a top 10 list of
pinups, for Thanksgiving. Once again, my
dreams of listing have been brutally
shattered by the sad realities: Thanks giving
isn't sexy enough for pinups. There are
almost no Thanksgiving bombshells, out
there.
Yes, I love doing
lists for this blog, because it gives me
a chance to dive into a massive search
for retro girlie art, in Google. I ogle
sexy, half naked women, for hours on
end, under the pretext of work. (jealous
much
) This Thanksgiving, my
work has been unproductive.
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Tags: Thanksgiving, retro girlie art, pinup pioneer
14/11/07 10:00 Filed in:
Pinup Shop
Updates
Sexual art is usually underground or very
niched. Because of this, artists throw all
inhibition away and correct the politically
incorrect. There are no holy cows in the
pinup business, just beautiful pinup girls
(and boys) of all shapes, sizes and
sexes.
Hard to find but worth the
effort
It's true that if you do a Google
search of the term “male pinups” you wouldn't
get much of that retro beefcake fun. Not to
mention the poor results on “African American
pinups”. But if you look deep and maybe throw
in a couple of names, you will find
Dorothy
Dandridge and
a handful of
naked men (not together!
)
Sexual art (A.K.A. “pornography” ) has never
been subjected to the cultural snob's
censorship. What's the point? Smut is smut,
right?
Wrong!
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Tags: sexual Art, underground art, Duane Bryers, retro pinup art, Lesbian pinups, 1940, 1950, Hilda, Plus-size Pinup, Les Toil, The Toil Girls, Beautiful pinup girls,
Diversity, African American Pinups,
Masuimi Max, pinup boys, pornography, Beefcake, Dorothy Dandridge, naked men, Male Pinups
04/11/07 10:00 Filed in:
Art
| Painting
| History
| Culture
Personally, I consider anything made with
premeditated intension as art. So what? Is a
carpenter that makes kitchen cupboards an
artist or just a professional craftsmen?
Could he be both?
The new American liberationists
contrivances have a deeper identification
with commercial art than the plagiarism or
adaptation of itsimages. They share the
impersonality of advertising- agency
art-department productions. They are
entirely cerebral and mechanical; the hand
of the artist has no part in the evolution
of the work but is the mere executer of the
idea-man's command,though in this case the
artist himself is usually the idea-man
(sometimes the idea for work comes from
friends or sponsors). Nor is the self of
the artist involved in the proses of
creation.
Harold Rosenberg, “The
Anxious Object
")
, 1965, p. 75
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Tags: pinup art, pop-culture, original oil on canvas
pinup, underground art, World War II, WWII
