Louis K. Meisel Ordre des livres

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.

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 involved photographing models and then painting them into hyper-reality.

Bevat besprekingen van de volgende kunstenaars: Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Ron Kleeman, Richard McLean, John Salt, Ben Schonzeit, John Baeder, Arne Besser, Fran Bull, Hilo Chen, John Clem Clarke, John Kacere, Noel Mahaffey, Jack Mendelhall, Malcolm Morley, Jerry Ott, David Parrish, John Rummelhoff, Paul Staiger, Idelle Weber, Chin-Jang Yao

The bold, colourful hand-painted designs that Clarice Cliff combined with outrageous, French-inspired Art Deco shapes evoke all the uninhibited spirit of the 1920s and 30s. She added a new style to pottery decoration: landscapes overflowing with cottages embracing rainbow-coloured trees. In these she transcended Art Deco to give rise to a very British genre of pottery decoration.