An edition of Dirty Pictures (1997)
Dirty Pictures
Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality
By Micha Ramakers
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Publish Date
September 18, 2001
Publisher
Stonewall Inn Editions
Language
eng
Pages
270
Description:
"The art of Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), famous throughout the world as Tom of Finland, has had an impact upon the culture at large. In this study, Micha Ramakers explores the work and its effect. Illustrated with more than eighty drawings and photographs, Dirty Pictures is lively and entertaining. It encompasses the rise of the gay movement, the world of fine art, the function and functioning of pornography, and the impact of the artist known as Tom of Finland."--BOOK JACKET.