Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique - which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake" - involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every ...
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Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique - which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake" - involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. pp. 272, " Gil's girls: The seminal pin-up artist Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique-which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell… 4to.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" (GER) This book was originally published by Taschen in 1999; this 2008. No markings, tiny shallow bump to front cover, otherwise Fine in Fine dust jacket. Lavender boards, 272pp, index, colour reproductions of racy calendar pin-up girls in fetching poses throughout. Gillette Elvgren (1914-1980) is considered one of the best pin-up artists in the history of American illustration. The illustrations are racy and sexually provacative yet the images always retain their wholesome appeal. A heavy book. (4.0 JM HOJ 304/3.
