Title: Dirty Pictures
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Erotic drawing, Gay men in art, Sex in art, Gay erotic art, Gay artists, Erotica, Erotic art, Finnish Erotic drawing, Male homosexuality in art, Leather lifestyle in art
Places: Finland
People: Tom of Finland (1920-1991)