Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Edition)

The seminal pin-up artist in Post-depression America desperately needed 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.

Authors: Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Publisher: Taschen, 2008
Number of pages: 271
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 10" x 12" (245mm x 310mm)
ISBN: 9783836503051
Condition: VF - Very Fine
Code: GILELVGRENTASCH