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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

Mehrsprachige Ausgabe - Hardcover, Leineneinband mit Schutzumschlag.
BuchGebunden
472 Seiten
Deutsch
Taschen Verlagerschienen am25.11.2022
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.mehr

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KlappentextFrank 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.
ZusammenfassungFrank Frazetta ist seit 50 Jahren der unangefochtene Meister der Fantasy Art, und sein Ruhm ist in den 12 Jahren seit seinem Tod noch gewachsen. Seine kraftvollen Ölgemälde von Tarzan, Conan, Vampirella und dem legendäreren Death Dealer prägen nicht nur Fantasy-Welten, sondern auch die Körper, die sie bevölkern: fleischlich, muskulös und sinnlich. Bald auch in einer Collector's Edition erhältlich
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-8365-7921-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum25.11.2022
Seiten472 Seiten
SpracheDeutsch
Gewicht5616 g
Illustrationen700 Abb.
Artikel-Nr.51021095
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GenreKunst/Architektur

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Kritik
"Süchtigmachende Bilder, die heute Hochstpreise erzielen... Das XXL-Format schenkt Frazetta die Aufmerksamkeit, die er verdient - ein faszinierendes Kaleidoskop!" Wiener Zeitungmehr

Autor

Dan Nadel ist kuratorischer Leiter des Manetti Shrem Museum of Art der University of California in Davis und veröffentlicht regelmäßig Beiträge in der New York Review of Books und im Artforum. Einige seiner wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen und Ausstellungen sind Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence 1945-1976 (2020), Chicago Comics, 1960s to Now am Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021) und eine in Kürze erscheinende Robert-Crumb-Biografie (Scribner 2024). Nadel lebt und arbeitet in Brooklyn, New York.