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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art
for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his
death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian
Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he's long overdue for this
ultimate monograph. Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in
Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal
and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He
claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do - he
preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in
comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics,
then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were
interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s,
"I'm very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys
just like him," and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and
macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing,
more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As
counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship
allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed,
heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with
their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in
the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and
Frazetta's art is addictive as potato chips. This monograph is the
biggest and most complete ever produced on the artist, done in
collaboration with the Frazetta family and with top collectors.
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