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.
- ISBN13 9783836503051
- Publish Date 25 March 2008
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 January 2021
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Taschen GmbH
- Edition Taschen's 25th anniversary ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English