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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 45th Ed.

Dan Nadel Zak Smith Dian Hanson

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Taschen GmbH
03 March 2025
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50

years, his fame only growing in the 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.
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Imprint:   Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication:   Germany
Edition:   Multilingual edition
Dimensions:   Height: 217mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   1.086kg
ISBN:   9783836597951
ISBN 10:   3836597950
Pages:   480
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. Nadel’s books and exhibitions include Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence 1945–1976 (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.

Reviews for The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 45th Ed.

The Godfather of fantasy art finally gets a proper monograph, as a team of artists, writers, scholars, and family members pay weighty tribute to Frazetta's insane vision and industry-changing career. * Village Voice * ...a super-deluxe retrospective of Frazetta's career in comics, art, illustration and advertising. * Forbes *


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