Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups Charles G Martignette, Louis K Meisel

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 reputatio 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-candyfor every homesick private. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Charles G Martignette, Louis K Meisel)