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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

English, French, German

By (author): Dan Nadel Zak Smith

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king 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) hes 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, Im 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 Frazettas art is addictive as potato chips.

This monograph is the most complete ever produced on the artist, done in collaboration with the Frazetta family. It won the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 4870g
  • Dimensions: 290 x 395mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Taschen GmbH
  • Publication City/Country: Germany
  • Language: English, French, German
  • ISBN13: 9783836594806

About Dan NadelZak Smith

Dan Nadel is curator-at-large for the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California Davis and a contributor to the New York Review of Books and Artforum. Nadels books and exhibitions include Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence 19451976 (2020) Chicago Comics 1960s to Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021) and the forthcoming biography of Robert Crumb (Scribner 2024). He lives and works in Brooklyn New York. Zak Smith is an artist whose work is included in several public collections including The Museum of Modern Art New York; The Saatchi Gallery London; and The Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of several books writes a regular column for Artillery magazine and lives and works in Los Angeles. Dian Hanson is a senior editor and writer for TASCHEN with over 50 books to her credit. In addition to ARNOLD her recent works include The Art of Pin-up Masterpieces of Fantasy Art and The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. Read here how it all began.

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