{"product_id":"elvgren-9783836503051","title":"Elvgren","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"margin-bottom\" id=\"description_text_headlines\"\u003e\n\t\u003cdiv\u003e\n\t\t\u003cstrong\u003eGil's girls: The seminal pin-up artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\t\u003cdiv\u003e\n\t\t \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description_text\"\u003e\n\t\u003cdiv class=\"margin-bottom\" id=\"description_text\"\u003e\n\t\tPost-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 \u003cstrong\u003eGil Elvgren\u003c\/strong\u003e’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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\"Glamour is back... TASCHEN offers us a look back at these calendar and advertisement goddesses of which Gil Elvgren is king.\" \u003cem\u003eerotisme-fr.com, France\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\t\u003cdiv class=\"margin-bottom\"\u003e\n\t\t \u003c\/div\u003e\n\t\u003cdiv class=\"margin-bottom\"\u003e\n\t\tText in English, French, and German\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Charles G Martignette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291937747195,"sku":"9783836503051","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_dae7cc72-64b1-4b15-b0ed-d0a1254d23f4.jpg?v=1779995307","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/elvgren-9783836503051","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}