Explore Lifestyle Illustration Of The 60s Generated By Rian Hughes Presented In Paper Edition

maintained my interest as I leafed throught it, There isn't much text and it's a topic I don't know much about, but the illustrations were mildly interesting, The decade of thes seems to conjure up a lot of images of femininity to me slinky James Bond gal, mod miniskirted model, Donna Reedy housewife, hippie chick, California beach bunny.
All of those archetypes, and many more, are on full display in Lifestyle Illustration of thes, a bricklike volume of vintage magazine illustrations expertly selected by Rian Hughes.
Sure, there are some men pictured within these pages, but since the

illustrations come from various popular British womens mags of the era Woman, Womans Own, Homes and Gardens, Womans Journal to name a few they tend to focus on the fairer sex rendered in every color of the rainbow.
The women are generally seen in swooning, romantic poses with body language and facial expressions that hint at some intrigue or outside danger what is the trench coated beauty on pagelooking at.


What most impressed me about this book is how craftily the illustrators worked with white space and printing techniques to make a visually stunning statement.
The artwork is presented in chronological order, reproduced in graphic layouts that punch up the often stunning color palettes the artists used.
The earlier examples are more conservative subjectwise, with prim ladies emoting in billowy dresses, but the art is surprisingly daring in technique.
As thes move along, we see wilder colors and looser, more artfully sketchlike renderings, untilbrings on a mod, Carnaby Street influence with a graphic punch.
Cartoons, collage, surrealism, revival and psychedelic styles all get their due, but bywere back in the realm of glamorously swooning ladies rendered in washy paints.
Some things never change, it seems,

This book focuses solely on British publications, which honestly let me down a little, but many American artists of the era are represented here with quality work by the likes of Coby Whitmore, Andy Virgil and Lynn Buckham.
One of my favorites from that period, Bob Peak, is represented only once a striking image of a kissing couple dominated by the black space between their profiles.
Wow!

Scrubbles. net review, September,Thes was an optimistic era of unprecedented change, and its heady zeitgeist was captured in the amazing range of artwork that adorned the magazines of the time.
Lifestyle Illustration of thes is a colossal survey of magazine artwork from the Swinging Sixties, It not only provides revelatory insight into the extraordinary artistic talents of the illustrators featuredsuch as Austin Briggs, Lynn Buckham, Antonio Lopez and Coby Whitmorebut also tellingly elucidates the social aspirations of this era of political optimism and sexual freedom.
Featuring over,gloriously inventive and stylistically diverse illustrations, Lifestyle Illustration of thes traces the decade's dizzyingly swift evolution from the homemaking ethos of romantic coupledom to the stylish liberation of miniskirted Chelsea girls and the psychedelic palette that evolved towards the decade's close, conjuring a fabulous and euphoric pageant ofs pop culture from rediscovered artworks by the very best illustrators of the day.
An inspirational sourcebook for contemporary designers and fans ofs culture, Lifestyle Illustration of thes provides a wonderful, nostalgic adventure into an aspirational world of stylishly sophisticated living, revealing just how much life has changed in the intervening decades.

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Kudos to the author for putting together this amazing collection of illustrations from thes, I can't imagine the amount of effort required to source and credit the thousand over pieces of art, There's a total ofpages so this paperback book is rather thick,

The style, well, iss 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 thes pop culture, Much of the illustration of thes amps never appealed to me, As a young boy I couldn't understand why ugly was IN, This book helped me understand the evolution of lifestyle illustration through thes as it competed with photography in a dwindling market.
I still dislike much of it, with the gritty underpainting and garish colors leaning towards oranges and greens, However, there was some great work done, and I'm glad to have discovered it in these pages, Great way to get a pictorial and social history of the'snot to mention learning about various midth century illustrators.
Being oldfashionedso preferring the more photo realistic rathermy fav artist was Jac Mars, One of the best collected and curated books on the art of a decade of groundbreaking style and design, This is such a good collectioni love thes work, . u can see the transition from bright world to darker world, . as if the world got more complex and dark and the drawing imitated itthen slowly it goes to abstract and then into linework and a mixture of it.

You can literally see the transition, . overall loved it. . and yes quite an food for eye

Found it in my colleges library, . i wouldnt buy it tbh but i guess maybe because i m not sucker for illustration just yet my fav was still the starting works.
Rian Hughes is a designer, illustrator, comic book artist, type designer and writer, From his studio, Device, he has produced watches for Swatch, Hawaiian shirts, logo designs for Batman and Spiderman and an iconoclastic revamp of British comic hero Dan Dare.
His first novel is XX, He has an extensive collection of Thunderbirds memorabilia, a fridge full of vodka, and a stack of easy listening albums which he plays very quietly.
Rian Hughes is a designer, illustrator, comic book artist, type designer and writer, From his studio, Device, he has produced watches for Swatch, Hawaiian shirts, logo designs for Batman and Spiderman and an iconoclastic revamp of British comic hero Dan Dare.
His first novel is 'XX', He has an extensive collection of Thunderbirds memorabilia, a fridge full of vodka, and a stack of easy listening albums which he plays very quietly.
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