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Charles G Martignette, Louis K Meisel: Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editions)
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Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editions)
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List Price $14.99
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Author: Charles G Martignette, Louis K Meisel
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taschen
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 3836503050
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
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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 theform 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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