Enjoy all the talent of Tom of Finland with this elegant oversized edition featuring more than 1,000 drawings, illustrations, and sketches, many of them unpublished. Essays on the social and personal impact of Tom by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, along with an academic analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, complete this oversized volume.
In 2009, TASCHEN published the definitive collection of Tom’s work: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful and huge collector’s edition with a thousand images spanning 60 years of the artist’s career. The work was compiled from collections in the United States and Europe, with the collaboration of the Tom of Finland Foundation, and includes many unpublished drawings, illustrations, and sketches. Other images had been shown before, but without context, and in this volume they were presented in the sequential order arranged by Tom to fully appreciate the artistic value and erotic impact of his work.
This elegant extra-large book admired all facets of Tom’s talent from sensitive portraits to others of explicit sexual pleasure, passing through tender expressions of love and striking tributes to young people suffering from AIDS. To complete the presentation, eight specially commissioned texts by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, and Todd Oldham, among others, discuss the personal and social impact of Tom, along with a thorough analysis of each drawing by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith.
The only thing Tom of Finland XXL lacked was a more affordable price, but we have already solved that. The new Tom of Finland XXL is still large enough to work your biceps, and includes all the original content, but costs a fraction of the original price. A pleasure.
