Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Years, Vol. 1

by Michael J. Goldberg

Book Overview

"Alberto Vargas-The Esquire Years Vol. I" is one of two books containing his work. First appearing in Esquire in 1940, Vargas' dream girls were sexy and suggestive, yet tasteful and timid. Discover... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888054042
• ISBN13: 9781888054040
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Collectors Press
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Can't go wrong for the money

I wish this was bigger. The book is small and that is the only reason it didn't get the full 5 stars. Vargas is my favorite artist and this book shows a lot of examples of his WWII era art. A lot of these pin-ups also appeared on the WWII bombers. There are about 30 works represented and they are all beautiful.The book has a nice set-up as the pinups are printed nicely with good color reproduction. I use them as reference for painting nose art on A-2 flight jackets and the quality really allows me to get some really nice detail for my purposes. ....

At $10, easily worth the money

Like Vignettes 2, I wish this was bigger. The book is small and that is the only reason it didn't get the full 5 stars. None of the artwork is repeated on the 2 VIGNETTE books so get them both. Vargas is my favorite artist and this book shows a lot of examples of his WWII era art. A lot of these pin-ups also appeared on the WWII bombers. There are about 30 works represented and they are all beautiful.The book has a nice set-up as the pinups are printed nicely with good color reproduction. I use them as reference for painting nose art on A-2 flight jackets and the quality really allows me to get some really nice detail for my purposes.At $10 it is worth getting but I would also recommend VARGA by Robothman which is a lot bigger format so it really allows you to fully appreciate the art with the bigger format. Also, check out THE GREAT AMERICAN PIN-UP as that has a lot of pin-up artists represented and shows the rich history of Pin-Up art

Size does Matter!

I came across pin-ups during my studies in history in college. And that's where I fell in love with Vargas' Women. Never before had I feasted my eyes on such beauty and innocence which he had the ability to create. "The Esquire Years, (Vignettes)is a beautiful book depicting most of his works. I've never seen a more complete collection of Vargs' work ever before printed. The one problem I had was the extremely small size of the book. I had hoped that this book would be much larger, at least 8X11". If the size was somewhat larger I would've enjoyed this beautifully done book much more. In this situation size does matter when it is a Vargas!