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Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection. Vol. 1–5. Dian Hanson, ed. London: Taschen, 2005. ISBN 978-3-8228-3849-5 Laaksonen was diagnosed with emphysema in 1988. Eventually the disease and medication caused his hands to tremble, leading him to switch media from pencil to pastel. He died in 1991 of an emphysema-induced stroke. [6] Private life [ edit ]

Löfström, Jan (1998), "Scandinavian homosexualities: essays on gay and lesbian studies", Journal of homosexuality, Routledge, vol.35, no.3–4, pp.189–206, ISBN 0-7890-0508-5 Not all the illustrations in the sketchbook are preparatory works, what Laaksonen called ‘roughs,’ where he’s arranging figures and compositions. Ramakers, Mischa. Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity and Homosexuality. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. ISBN 0-312-20526-0This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In the most universal terms, Tom’s body of work represents tolerance, acceptance, pride, joy, and freedom,” Joakim Andreasson, director of licensing for Tom of Finland, told Fashion Network . “His imagery has become symbolic of the advancement of gay rights and sexual freedom.” Tom of Finland preparatory sketches, left 1964, right 1977. Sketches provided by Tom of Finland Foundation, Inc. Waugh, Thomas: Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-231-09998-3. Hooven, F. Valentine III (2012). Tom of Finland: Life and Work of a Gay Hero. Berlin: Bruno Gmünder Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86787-166-2. In her drawings for TOM, Prada wanted to pay homage to the difficulties of being a gay man at the height of Finland’s fame in the mid-20th century, but also approach it with her own femininity. “All the gay culture we can never forget,” she says. “We need to be more aware of that time when the struggle of being a gay man was part of the art. I think the female perspective comes through in a way that’s more emotional and erotic than sexual. It’s also a little bit chic.”

Excellent biography about the man who became Tom of Finland. I have another book that's about him, but it doesn't go into the kind of detail about his life that this one does. Even as a lesbian, I can appreciate the talent he had. He was best at drawing portraits of actual people - there was one drawing he did of a model on a motorcycle that was so good, I almost couldn't tell it was a drawing and not a photograph. It showed the drawing and the photograph side by side, and there was almost no difference. I don't really care for his general drawings of men with hugely muscled oversized bodies, small heads, kind of flat faces with stub noses, and unrealistically huge penises; to me, those are kind of ridiculous, although his attention to detail is incredible. And the few women he drew were just embarrassing. He admitted he couldn't draw women and didn't like doing it, which was plainly obvious. At best, his women looked like men dressed as women, or transgenders. a b c Ilppo Pohjola (author): Kari Paljakka and Alvaro Pardo (producers): Daddy and the Muscle Academy: Tom of Finland: United Kingdom: Oracle Home Entertainment: 2002. An Imaginary Sketchbook has almost no text, save for an afterward by the book’s co-editors, Juerg Judin and Pay Matthis Karstens of Berlin’s Galerie Judin. The cover of Tom of Finland: An Imaginary Sketchbook, left, and a preparatory drawing, 1988. Images provided by Tom of Finland Foundation, Inc.A new book on Tom of Finland takes a novel approach to the legendary artist's work. Rather than highlight Tom's later work, Tom of Finland: An Imaginary Sketchbook is instead a cross-section of his less polished and unfinished freehand drawings and sketches. Edited by author, art dealer, and collector Juerg Judin and German art critic and writer Pay Matthis Karstens just in time for Pride, the book has the look and feel of a sketchbook.