Gil Elvgren (2008) By Louis K. Meisel
 
A spectacular large format hardback from Taschen, which means high quality art paper printing and a fabulous production. All Gil Elvgren's glamorous American pin-up paintings are in this lovely volume of 1950s and early 60s erotica. This appears to be a new, unopened and unread copy but there is shelf wear to the dustjacket. Just fabulous! 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 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.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
272 pages
In Good Condition