Elvgren Hardback
by Louis K. Meisel, Charles G. Martignette
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.)
- Publisher:Taschen GmbH
- Publication Date:01/01/2008
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- ISBN:9783836503051
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.)
- Publisher:Taschen GmbH
- Publication Date:01/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9783836503051