The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 45th Ed., 9783836597951
Hardcover
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, with his fame only growing in the years since his death. His high-energy oils of Tarzan, Conan, Vampirella and his signature Death Dealer define not just fantasy worlds, but the bodies that occupy them: fleshy, muscular, tactile and sensual.

The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 45th Ed.

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  • Hardcover

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    2 March 2025

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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 no…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783836597951
ISBN-10:3836597950
Series:40th Edition
Author:Dan Nadel, Zak Smith, Dian Hanson
Publisher:Taschen GmbH
Imprint:Taschen GmbH
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:2 March 2025
Weight:1.09kg
Dimensions:217mm x 156mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

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 *
About The Author

Dan Nadel

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.

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