Louis K. Meisel Gil Elvgren Издательство: Taschen Жанр: Taschen Качество: Хорошее Страниц: 272 Формат: pdf, fb2, epub 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.
