Луис Майсел

In the 15 years since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up ― drawings, paintings, and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended fo...

Buxom bombshells: pictures from an age when eroticism was still innocent. They’ve been exciting generations of men, on calendars and covers, as centrefolds or even on playing cards: pin-ups. What started as an exercise in oils was soon taken up in various media - pin-up mascots graced the fuselages of American fighters, and became an essential feature of the male world of garages and barracks....

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.