Full name: Gil Elvgren: All his glamorous American pin-ups

Authors: Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9783836503051 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 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. Similar books: The great American pin-up by Charles G. Martignette Transfigurations by Alex Grey Norman Rockwell 332 Magazine Covers by Christopher Finch Magnetic Storm by Roger Dean One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe by Nancy Frazier Norman Rockwell's America by Christopher Finch The Art Spirit by Robert Henri The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Dr. Seuss Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini Gonzo: The Art by Ralph Steadman Jazz by Henri Matisse Views by Roger Dean Masters of Deception by Al Seckel The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta by Frank Frazetta