Pin-Ups
They continue to shape everything from tattoos and fashion to custom portrait art today. The 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page’s (b. 1923) trajectory illustrates a link between pin-ups and crypto-pornography in postwar, presexual revolution America. These discussions of sexuality unfolded within a cold-war culture both confused pin-up about and obsessed with the binaries pornography/art, American/foreign, […]




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