IT’s HERE!
If you thought Tom of Finland: The Art of Pleasure ()
this is a MUST HAVE! 15 pounds!
29 x 40 cm, 700 pages and over 1000 images!
It is truly amazing!
Covering 6 decades of the artist’s career. The work was gathered from all known collections across the US and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland Foundation and features many drawings, paintings and preparatory sketches that have never been reproduced in any book. Other images have only been seen out of context and will be presented here in the sequential order Tom intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact. This elegant oversized volume will showcase the full range of Tom’s talent, from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love to Tom’s haunting tributes to young men struck down by the AIDS epidemic.
Completing this collector’s edition are eight specially-commissioned essays on Tom’s social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus a scholarly analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith.
Born Touko Laaksonen in Finland, Tom was a fetish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. Heavily muscled torsos, limbs, buttocks and improbably large penises. Tight or partially removed clothing showed off these traits, with penises often visible as distinct bulges in tight trousers or prominently displayed for the viewer. This is an amazing coffee table book, unlike no other I have ever seen!
For the man or woman who thinks bigger is better, Tom of Finland XXL
cut or uncut!
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