Lifestyle Illustration of the 1950s

I collect books on Mid Century Illustration and I'm thrilled to add this one to my collection. Wonderful, bright, illustrations by various artists. Highly recommended.

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I am a cartoonist. I am always looking for books I to add to my home collection for inspiration. E-books have their place, but for my personal artistic purposes I prefer the tactile experience of having an open book on my drawing table.A fellow artist I know had the "Lifestyle Illustrations of the 60s" book and I was shopping for that edition, but it's been out of stock. I saw the 50's version and jumped on it. From the previews alone, and having seen the 60s book up close, I knew I was going to love "Lifestyle Illustrations of the 50s".This is a hearty book chronicling 1950 to 1959 magazine art in vivid and expressive detail. The illustrations are magnificently reproduced showing each artist's name and the publication the image originally appeared in. At 512 total pages, this is an inch and a half of viewing enjoyment for many years to come.I would have preferred a hard cover, but the soft cover on this book is fairly thick and good quality.If you're looking at this book and are reading this review, you've already shown some inclination for the golden age. Get this book, immerse yourself in the images, and for a brief while you'll be transported back to an era of dapper men and glamorous ladies.

For anyone who enjoys illustrations from a bygone era, this marvelous volume is for you. Beautiful images arranged chronologically by year, you can see the best of some illustrators of the time, i.e. Joe De Mers, Al Parker, Coby Whitmore, Phil Harrington, Eric Earnshaw among a host of others. My one critique is that the author did not identify these lovely images specifically, for example, as magazine story illustrations, which was very popular and common at the time. To discover this, one must look to unreliable information from the web - Flicker and Pinterest, for example. I did wish Mr. Hughes had spent some more time on context, but that is a minor quibble. I would recommend this book (and the Lifestyle Illustrations of the 60s as well) - just exquisite and time and money wisely and very well spent.

Beautifully vintage illustrations for short, romantic fiction, published in womens' magazines of the era. The beautiful heroines are absolute masters of their destinies, though the obstacle in most plots is some hapless male love interest. Gets a bit psychedelic towards the end, but then so did the sixties. An intriguing piece of nostalgia (the definition that specifies longing for an era that never was), but the art must be appreciated on its own merits, as the book will tell you only whodunnit, in what year, and in which rag.

An excellent book for those who want a glimpse of the 1950s as well as those who appreciate the art style from numerous artists during the 1950s! These high quality images allows you to view detail which may have been missed have the published decided to not consider the minute details the artists put into their work. I personally use this book for ideas for my art work! If you are looking to find styles similar to Robert E. McGinnis (and many others), Lifestyle Illustrations of the 50s will not disappoint you!

This is a great book for artists and designers. Well researched. And if you read it you will be as jelly as I about how respected illustrators of yore were. As if I could expect a photoshoot just so I could have reference material, ha! But the art will inspire you to get out the paintbrush or digital tablet as it were and start making art.

Great book packed with great illustrations. My favorite is that pink Fuchs illustration of the couple in the cinema- just too good! 4/5 stars because this edition's cover is step down from the gorgeous orange cover the previous one had though.

Es una magnífica selección que recoge el estilo de la ilustración de los años 50. Hay que tener presente que el libro se centra, casi en exclusivamente, en los magazines femeninos. Eso limita un poco los temas expuestos, pero no le quita ni un ápice de valor a la recopilación.

Pubblicazione di grande livello, sia per la bellezza delle illustrazioni del 1950 e sia per la capacità di rappresentare, tramite d'esse, ambienti e costumi dell'epoca. Un'opera decisamente da consigliare a tutti per la sua eleganza e la raffinata cultura: sia didattica, sia quale godimento estetico.Nestore Del Boccio (pittore, illustratore)

Meraviglioso sequel del primo volume dedicato ai 50's. Piccolo appunto: il leitmotiv della serie sono gli stili di vista ma mi sarei aspettato più varietà di soggetti invece dominano soprattutto le coppie in atteggiamenti affettuosi, galanti o di vita quotidiana e i soggetti femminili, che cmq è un bel vedere, un bellissimo vedere! Questo volume ha più varietà di tecniche com'era tipico di quel periodo di sperimentazione. Qualità di stampa e carta superbe.

「ライフスタイルーアメリカの６０年代」は、意外性に満ちていました。一見、陽気で開放的と見えるライフスタイルなのですが、まるで他人の視線を気にしているかのような「ひそやかな」仕草が描かれているのです。雨の中を帰宅する男女が指先でつながっている後ろ姿、人ごみの中に紛れ込む下心のある男など微妙な仕草をとらえた描写に心を動かされました。アメリカ人と言えば、大胆さやオーバーアクションなどが浮かぶ私の先入観を見事にうち破ってくれた表現に見入りました。

El libro es una edición muy cuidada pese a ser de tapa blanda. El papel es excelente y el color de las ilustraciones exquisito. Una estupenda obra de referencia para ilustración.