Gil Elvgren - The Complete Pin-Ups (English, German, French, Hardcover, Taschen's 25th anniversary ed)

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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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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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General

Imprint

Taschen

Country of origin

Germany

Release date

March 2008

Availability

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First published

2008

Authors

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Dimensions

310 x 230 x 24mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

271

Edition

Taschen's 25th anniversary ed

ISBN-13

978-3-8365-0305-1

Barcode

9783836503051

Languages

value, value, value

Categories

LSN

3-8365-0305-0



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