Books written by Louis K. Meisel

  • Photorealism in the Digital Age
    Photorealism in the Digital Age

    1999. Oil on canvas, 9 x 30" Above English Harbor. 1999. Oil on canvas, 12 x 16" East to Swetes from John Hughes. 1999. Oil on board, 5 x 91⁄2" Photorealism in the Digital Age 484. Blue Pool at Kapalua. 2001. Oil on linen,

  • The Great American Pin-up

    This book tells the tale of a genre as utterly American as the paintings of Edward Hopper, describing its origins and development in detail and showcasing the most important artists.

  • Photorealism Since 1980
    Photorealism Since 1980

    Voor het merendeel schilderijen van Amerikaanse kunstenaars. For the past decade, Meisel has examined all the exhibitions, catalogues, books, and articles pertaining to Photorealism, and he has included every significant one here.

  • Photorealism At the Millennium
    Photorealism At the Millennium

    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.".

  • The Great American Pin-up
    The Great American Pin-up

    Describes the origins and the development in detail and showcasing the most important artists. More than 900 colour illustrations.

  • The Great American Pin-up
    The Great American Pin-up

    Bilder aus einer Zeit, als die Erotik noch unschuldig war

  • GIL ELVEGREEN.
    GIL ELVEGREEN.

    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.

  • Jeepers Peepers!: A Gallery of American Pin-up Art
    Jeepers Peepers!: A Gallery of American Pin-up Art

    Featuring art by such legendary pinup masters as Gil Elvgren, Billy DeVorss, Rolf Armstrong, and Zoe Mozert, this colorful collection commemorates the strange blend of innocence and erotica that characterized the 1940s pinup.

  • Photo-Realism
    Photo-Realism

    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...