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The Wonderful World of Bill Ward, King of the Glamour Girls - Reviews

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Is the word ‘photojournalism` supposed to elevate Mr. Kroll above a "mere" sex photographer? Given the large corporate newspaper monopolies he`s been hired by this is not very serious `journalism` and not something innocent either especially when it involves the condescension of pictures of naked women. The conceited use of the word "journalism" just means propaganda for something the photographer doesn`t even believe in himself. Since he apparently thinks art (even aspiring art) is not important, self-expression is not important or is something he thinks is forever beyond him all he can appeal to for recognition is Soviet style institutions like The New York Times Corporation, THAT`S important and the advertising that keeps it alive. Or impersonal chain publishers of slick trash like Vogue (a Conde Nast Corporation). That`s all right if it were only Mr. Kroll`s own work he were trivializing and debasing in the manner of a Soviet civil engineer but it`s somebody else`s work! Aesthete United States

"Sacrées pin-up! Les plus magistrales planches du Russ Meyer de l`illustration. Des créatures plantureuses, généreusement dénudées et nettement moins cruches que nos blondes actuelles." VSD, Paris France

"Not the kind of tome you can discretely hide on the bookshelf, TASCHEN's typically sumptuous celebration of the life of Bill Ward is bursting from the bindings with racy cartoons, cheek-reddening one-liners and a healthy dose of reverence for a man equally obsessed and delighted with the female form...A hilarious delve into a treasure of chests, bottoms and everything in between." Boys Toys, London United Kingdom

"Tacchi sempre più alti, seni sempre più grossi sono le linee guida sintetiche nell'evoluzione dell'opera di Bill Ward e Eric Kroll che TASCHEN pubblica nel più completo studio mai prodotto sull'autore. »  Worldstyle Music, Milano Italy

"Quand glamour rime avec toujours. Disparu en 1998, le dessinateur Bill Ward était un amoureux de l`éternel féminin, de la femme glamour et sophistiquée portant talons aiguilles et bas à coutures. Ce superbe recueil présente plus de 600 illustrations sur près de cinq décennies (1942-1992). A la vue de ces dessins délicieusement rétro, on se dit que la pin-up ne cessera jamais d`influencer notre conception de la féminité…" Union, Paris France

"This book is the ultimate tribute to this cartooning master, who in many ways changed the way we look at cartoons. It is a must read for Bill Ward fans the world over." Shelf Life, Toronto Canada

"...TASCHEN have done an outstanding job in presenting the complete Bill Ward, sourcing images and examples from the many facets of his long career. Ward's original works are now avidly sought after by collectors across the world. Produced in a large format and in full colour, using a cartridge paper stock that reproduces the qualities of the originals perfectly, this book is itself destined to become a collectors item." State of Art, London United Kingdom

"TASCHEN's latest duo of gems are real sparklers! Two fine draughtsmen, who couldn't be further apart in lifestyles, but whose erotic work may be compared only because of their sexual imagination and similar technique.... TASCHEN unearths an astonishing cache of mid-century English erotica, full of sly humour, brute passion and metasexual sophistication in regard to Tom Poulton, and with Eric Kroll editing The Wonderful World of Bill Ward, we gain a brilliant insight into America's most prolific pin-up artist, with extraordinary women encased in furs and teetering in extreme heels, decorated with dangling diamond earrings and wrapped in skin-tight dresses with deep cleavages, which fortified the male imagination for over forty years. Its enough to make your coffee table froth over with excitement! Enjoy this double whammy glammy!" Forum Magazine, London United Kingdom

"Hasta su muerte, medio ciego en 1998, (Ward) no hizo otra cosa que dibujar, dibujar y dibujar. Mujeres. Mujeres vestidas, mujeres desnudas, mujeres con ropa demasiado pequeña para su ondulado volumen. La imaginación de Ward alimentó la de los americanos durante más de 50 años. Eric Kroll, editor de TASCHEN completó las más de 600 ilustraciones con entrevistas a amigos, familiares, socios e incluso modelos. UN paseo por sus páginas sirva para subrayar las palabras del propio Kroll: "Ward es un hombre que amó alas mujeres"." Alter Ego, Madrid Spain

"American pin-up artists and erotic cartoonist, Bill Ward, finally gets the TASCHEN monster tome treatment in the form of this extremely large-format, 350 -page volume. Which I guess is only fitting for a man who created such a huge body of work. Indeed, between the late 40s and his death in 1998, Ward with his zeppelin breasted, wasp-waisted women in nylons and spike heels, gave visual realisation to the collective imagination of the red-blooded American male." Desire Magazine, London United Kingdom

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