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Smith Zak - The Fantastic Worlds Of Frank Frazetta - Hardcover
Smith Zak - The Fantastic Worlds Of Frank Frazetta - Hardcover
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Description: 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) 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 most complete ever produced on the artist done in collaboration with the Frazetta family. It won the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection.
Title: The Fantastic Worlds Of Frank Frazetta
Author(s): Smith Zak, Dian Hanson
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836579216
Pages: 468 Pages, 700 Illustrations, Unspecified
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/25/2022
Category: Illustration & Commercial Art
Description: 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) 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 most complete ever produced on the artist done in collaboration with the Frazetta family. It won the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection.
Title: The Fantastic Worlds Of Frank Frazetta
Author(s): Smith Zak, Dian Hanson
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836579216
Pages: 468 Pages, 700 Illustrations, Unspecified
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/25/2022
Category: Illustration & Commercial Art
