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  • All American Girls: Women Pin-Up Artists of the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    Author(s):
    Regina Palm (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Feminist Humanities, Gender Studies, History of Art, History of Illustration and Illustration Studies, Women in the Arts
    Subject(s):
    Art, American, Americans--Social life and customs, Feminism and art, History, Women's studies, Popular culture, Popular culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    women artists, American art, American culture, Feminist art history, Feminist studies, Gender and sexualities, Illustration, Popular culture studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6251FK1B
    Abstract:
    While male illustrators including Alberto Vargas (1896–1982), George Petty (1894–1975), and Gil Elvgren (1914–1980) are synonymous with the field of early-twentieth-century pin-up art, there were in fact several women who also succeeded in the genre. Pearl Frush (1907–1986), Zoë Mozert (1907–1993), and Joyce Ballantyne (1918–2006) each established themselves as successful pin-up artists during the early to mid-twentieth century. Unlike their male contemporaries, however, they have been largely overlooked by the history of art. The reason for this is twofold—not only were they women artists, but they were women artists working within a highly sexualized genre created for male consumption. The idea that a woman could be both the subject and creator of such male fantasies conflicted with early-twentieth-century American society’s understanding of the so-called proper roles for respectable women. This article highlights the contributions of long overlooked women pin-up artists to the field of popular art and the gender politics they negotiated in order to achieve commercial success.
    Notes:
    This article is a postprint version of "All American Girls: Women Pin-Up Artists of the First Half of the Twentieth Century," which was published in The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 51, no. 5, 2018.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12722
    Publisher:
    Wiley Periodicals
    Pub. Date:
    October 2018
    Journal:
    The Journal of Popular Culture
    Volume:
    51
    Issue:
    5
    Page Range:
    1092 - 1112
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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