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Description and detailsThe storied and turbulent career of glamour artist Alberto Vargas took him from Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies in the 1920s to Hollywood in the '30s to Esquire magazine and the emergence of the "Varga Girl" in the '40s and, ultimately, to a lasting home at Playboy in the '60s and '70s.
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Locked in litigation for over a decade, Alberto Vargas's drawings finally have been cleared for publication in this glossy homage to the ultimate Playboy illustrator. Any book with a foreword by Hugh Hefner and text by Playboy art director Austin wears its pedigree on its sleeve; its pages are indeed titillating if lacking any substantive analysis. One would be hard-pressed to find a more gracefully produced book of magazine illustrations featuring women wearing heels and transparent tops (if they wear anything at all). Austin's essay is equally gauzy, tracing Vargas's childhood in Peru and his work for the Ziegfeld Follies, Esquire, and, ultimately, Playboy magazine, only occasionally alighting on such factual tidbits as the introduction of pubic hair in Playboy (1972). The main attraction is surely Vargas's voluptuous women. They vamp through the years and pages with unchanging proportions and airbrushed perfection, never questioning the fantasy they perpetuate. For special-interest collections. -Prudence Peiffer, Cambridge, MA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.