{"product_id":"9783836597951","title":"The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 45th Ed. by Dian Hanson","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309836382581,"sku":"9783836597951","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783836597951.jpg?v=1762813527","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783836597951","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}