Experience the full talent of Tom of Finland with this elegant, oversized edition featuring over 1,000 drawings, illustrations, and sketches, many of them previously unpublished. Essays on Tom's social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus scholarly 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 gorgeous, sprawling collector’s edition featuring 1,000 images spanning 60 years of the artist’s career . Drawn from collections in the US and Europe with the support of the Tom of Finland Foundation, it includes many previously unpublished drawings, illustrations, and sketches . Other images had been shown before, but out of context, and are presented in Tom’s sequential order here, so that the full artistic value and erotic impact of his work can be fully appreciated .

This stylish oversized book admired all facets of Tom's talent , from sensitive portraits of explicit sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love and powerful tributes to young people suffering from AIDS . Rounding out the presentation are eight specially commissioned essays from Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin and Todd Oldham , among others, on Tom's personal and social impact, plus a rigorous analysis of each drawing by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith .

The only thing Tom of Finland XXL was missing was a cheaper price, but we've already fixed that. The new Tom of Finland XXL is still big enough to work your biceps and includes all the original content, but it costs a fraction of the original price . A pleasure.

Book details:

• Publisher: Taschen
• Language: Multilingual (German, French, English)
• Hardcover: 666 pages
• Dimensions: 24.5 x 34.2 cm
• Weight: 3.67 kg
• ISBN 978-3-8365-2724-8