The works of Gil Elvgren, who has been dubbed "the Norman Rockwell of Cheesecake, " reveal how his "girls next door" conquered America with charm, chic, and humor. 600 illustrations.

Gil Elvgren: All his glamourous American pin-ups

Arts & Photography

MEISEL,Louis K.

Martignette, Charles G.

Individual Artists

Barnes&Noble

Reproduces the major works of this photorealist artist and traces his life history

Richard Estes: The Complete Paintings, 1966-1985

History & Criticism

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The Photo-Realists, creators of the most popular movement in American painting to emerge in the 1970s, portray the bright shiny surface of the American Dream in amazingly real paintings. More than 950 remarkable works, including 576 in color, are reproduced for a comprehensive study of the movement's major artists.

Photo-Realism

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The third volume in Louis K. Meisel's definitive series, Photorealism at the Millennium continues to document the evolution of the movement through the 1990s. More than 600 full-color images present the work of twenty-eight artists, from the pioneers through the second generation to the newcomers who will advance the movement into the 21st century. This work joins Photorealism (1980) and Photorealism since 1980 (1993) as a unique endeavor - a catalogue raisonne chronicling and recording almost every painting by every artist in a contemporary art movement. In the early 1970s, Meisel began documenting the works of the original thirteen Photorealists. Many of these are still making significant contributions, as evidenced, for example, by Richard Estes's complex street scenes and waterscapes, Tom Blackwell's dazzling reflective storefronts, and John Salt's wistful rusting automobiles, all represented here. Although always approached from a Photorealist point of view, the images depicted by these artists are staggeringly varied - Ralph Goings's diners, Richard McLean's horses, Linda Bacon's toys, Randy Dudley's industrial vistas, Ron Kleemann's Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, David Parrish's pop icons. Wherever possible, the complete works made by the artist in the 1990s are illustrated, and the rest are listed. Such a comprehensive approach makes this volume invaluable to scholars, collectors, and art historians. In addition, an essay by Linda Chase is the first to fully consider Photorealism in the context of art history. Starting from the invention of photography and its almost immediate clash with "fine art," Chase examines how Photorealism developed as a response to such issues and to those raised by modernism, existentialism, and Pop art as well.

Photorealism At the Millennium

Chase, Linda

Harry N. Abrams

Photorealism since 1980 Meisel , Donovan , Teresa Photo realism Photography

Photorealism Since 1980

Donovan, Margaret

A survey of modern paintings, whose disconcerting fidelity to life prompts a reexamination of common, everyday sights that are taken for granted

Photorealism

History

Abradale/Abrams

The greatest painting and drawings by pop artist Mel Ramos, including his portraits of pre-Code comic book heroes and his well-known series of nudes, are featured in a comprehensive retrospective by a noted art critic.

Mel Ramos Pop Art Fantasies: The Complete Paintings

Kuspit, Donald

Watson-Guptill Pubns

This luxurious volume—the fourth in a series by Louis K. Meisel—is a comprehensive documentation of 21st-century Photorealism, one of the most popular art movements since the late 1960s. Photorealists work painstakingly from photographs to create startlingly realistic paintings, and where they once used film for gathering information, they now rely on digital technology, which has vastly expanded the amount of detail that can be captured. In these visual marvels they bring insights to vernacular subjects—cars, cityscapes, portraits—and make the commonplace uncommon. Illustrating the book with more than 850 works created since 2000, Meisel covers every major Photorealist still active (including Ralph Goings, Richard Estes, Tom Blackwell, Richard McLean, and John Salt) as well as remarkable newcomers. For the first time he also includes Verist sculptors such as John De Andrea and Duane Hanson.

Photorealism in the Digital Age

Harris, Elizabeth Katherine May

Featuring both iconic and never-before-published works, this eye-popping volume presents one of the first and finest collections of Photorealism in the United States. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Photorealism: Beginnings to Today at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the book presents seventy works from the late 1960s to recent years. The first affordable book in years on this popular genre of art.

Photorealism: Beginnings to Today

Lord, Russell

Lash, Miranda

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

An extraordinary artist, Edward Runci received national fame as a pin- up and glamour artist. His daily association with legends such as Gil Elvgren made him one of the great successes of the pin-up genre.

Pin-Up Poster Book: The Edward Runci Collection

Louis K. Meisel

Martinette, Charles G.

Runci, Edward

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