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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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Elvgren, Louis K. Meisel, Charles G. Martignette
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- Elvgren
- Language
- English, Italian
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 3836503069
- ISBN13
- 9783836503068
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, History, Art, References & Manuals, Erotica, Design, Art History & Criticism, History of Art
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- 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.