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title: "Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s Paperback – August 19, 2011"
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# Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s Paperback – August 19, 2011

**Brand:** rian hughes
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- **What is this?** Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s Paperback – August 19, 2011 by rian hughes
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## Customer Reviews

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    Awesome Book with Tons of Illustrations Inside
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2011*

I ordered this book hoping to find the authentic illustrations of the 60s and got exactly that - plus the unexpected cover to cover color pages.The 1960's gave us a fresh new look and approach to illustration and professional advertisement art.  As with the revolutionary cultural rifts of the time, the freedom of expression, dynamic compositions, raw edged brush lines, exciting colors, and dramatic story telling is all here in these evocative illustrations.  In today's airbrushed, super-fantasy realism we see in the form of advertisement and illustration, it is so exciting and refreshing to see the quality and power of advertisement and illustrative artists of the past!  The figurative aspect of the era is beautifully represented here showing the drama and tension aligned with beauty of the everyday situations of our culture.  The often narrative illustrations of contrast, mass, light, color, and form are all here and the captivating forms of the figures and expressions are beautiful.  I wish that advertising and illustration schools would appreciate these particular skill sets which seem to be vacant in many of today's educational institutions.  There is freedom of line, openness of space and wonderful contrasts throughout these illustrations.  They not only take me back to an era I grew up with of which I can verify these illustrations with vivid validation, but they offer me an inspiration over and over again as a professional artist.The book is a dense heavy book, packed with full color illustrations on every page. the cover is stiff-high gloss and seems to be a hybrid between a hard cover and a soft, with an stiff gloss inside cover that lines the inside flap of the outer cover - all one piece.  There is a small few-page introduction in the front and then a list of biographies in the back - no glossary or index.  Aside from that, each page also has the year in which each illustration was created or originally published, and it also lists the artists wherever possible.  Taking us through the 1960's from beginning to end, the book is an amazing visual time capsule of the era that is legendary.  The only think I wish it had was environmental content.  Since I am an artist that specializes in 1960s genre, with a professional background in visual and background development, I would have liked to see more of these illustrations that cover more ambient environments with structures and architectural elements.  Most of the illustrations are closeups of the figure with some smattering of environment peeking through in the slim boarder of the background of the illustration.  I feel like many of the illustrations are closeups and I wish that the complete illustration with cars, city streets, interior rooms, and other elements to complete the scene would have been more interesting.  But clearly, the book makes a statement about the "lifestyle" which contains plenty of men and women in a variety of settings or small scenes cover page to page in this book.  The relationships that seems instantly established by the illustrations are evident.  But this is a trivial thing and is easily overlooked when embracing the beauty, the elegance, and the range of illustrative styles and designs of the times. The figures are expressive, emotional, and the loose stylization that this era brought to us as a culture, changed the way we looked at advertisement and illustration forever.  You can see the style breakaway from 1960, where much of the style resembled the late 1950's with it's narrative ideals, to a more free-flowing expressiveness and highly stylized dynamic flat and geometrics interwoven with style, fashion, and the ever present figure.  As an educator, I would recommend this book for figure painting, fashion design, illustration, advertisement, and so on.  As an artist, the aforementioned applies.Even if you are not a teacher or an artist, this book still ranks as number one with me among my highly favored collections of coffee table conversation books.Rian Hughes and David Roach did the most amazing job in compiling, editing, writing, and publishing this book.  Generously illustrated with tons of color pictures on every page and very little yak-yak-yak reveals that this book is a pure enjoyment of eye-candy for the viewer.  It has been long over due and in need by professional artists (especially me!) to have such a great book with wonderful width and depth!  Thank you for this wonderful book!  I think it will make me a better artist for having found it!  I can't wait for the next one!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Yeah baby, yeah! Oh, behave...
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016*

I avoided this book series for several months--primarily because I have shelves and shelves and more shelves of reference books that barely get referenced. I started working on a series of illustrations that take inspiration from the swingin' 60s, and finally decided it was time to pick this one up. It's a friggin' fantastic reference--communicating the range of styles that informed 1960s design and illustration. I've read other reviews that indicated a good deal of this material came from a single publication, with only a little trickling in from other sources. I'm no art historian, so this may very well be the case. However, as a beautiful reference of 1960s magazine illustration (both editorial and advertising), I'm more than pleased. I even picked-up the 1950s volume as a companion to this one, and reference them almost daily as I develop my latest personal artistic viewpoint.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Fabulous collection
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2010*

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     Kudos to the author for putting together this amazing collection of illustrations from the 60s. I can't imagine the amount of effort required to source and credit the thousand over pieces of art. There's a total of 576 pages so this paperback book is rather thick.The style, well, is 60s and the variety comes from the different human subjects featured and the colours. The reproduction of the paintings are good. There's a very nice textural look to them. What strikes me immediately besides the style is the use of masterful composition. The examples on composition are good enough for me to recommend this book even to lifestyle photographers who haven't any interest in paintings -- there's plenty to learn from seeing.This book should be very nostalgic for anyone working in the design industry during those times. It provides a very interesting glimpse into the the 60s pop culture.

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