More Blacks in Tom's Drawings, Tom of Finland Company, 1997, 18+, Very Good softcover.
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Dehner, Durk. Los Angeles: Tom of Finland Company, 1997.
English, Very Good, SC, 8vo, 11" x 8 1/2", 32 pp.
ISBN: 1879055465
Softcover in white pictorial wraps. Some shelf wear to back panel and spine, small pressure indentation causing a faint mark to front panel, and light wear to front tips. 32 pp. Includes reproductions of Tom's black-and-white illustrations. Collection of homoerotic illustrations by Finnish artist, Touko Valio Laaksonen (Tom of Finland) that solely focuses on the beauty of Black men, depicting them hypersexualized in a variety of ways, such as motorcyclists in leather, policemen and construction workers in their uniforms, all the while being caught up in steamy homoerotic scenes. Beautifully produced catalog that showcases just a glimpse of the influential, highly stylized work that Tom of Finland is known as an icon within gay cultural history.