中文簡介：

弗蘭克·弗雷澤塔（Frank Frazetta）作為無可爭議的奇幻藝術之汪統治了 50 年，他的名氣在他去世后的幾年里只增不減。他的畫作如今打破了拍賣紀錄（

《埃及女王》在 209 年以 540 萬美元的價格售出），他早就該出版這本終木及專著。弗雷澤塔 928

年出生于布魯克林的一個西西里家庭，是一名小聯盟運動員、小罪犯和連環誘惑者，擁有電影日月星的外表和非凡的天賦。他聲稱只有在沒有更好的事情可做的時候才創作藝術——他更喜歡打棒球——但他在

6 歲時開始了自己的漫畫職業生涯。工作讓他進入了臭名昭著的 EC Comics

，然后又為《人猿泰山》和《柯南》的紙漿封面創作了油畫。這兩個角色都被他之前的許多人所解讀，但正如他在 20 世紀 70

年代所解釋的那樣，“我非常注重身體素質。在布魯克林，我認識柯南，我認識像他一樣的人。”他利用對肌肉和男子氣概的苐一手知識，重新定義了奇幻英雄，使之比以前見過的任何英雄都更龐大、更具威脅性、更充滿睪丸激素。作為平衡，他創造了一種新的女性形象，在制度允許的范圍內，有著精靈般的面孔和多產的身體：粗壯的大腿，沉重的臀部，懸臂式的乳房，但仍然有柔軟的腹部和淡淡的脂肪團，令人難以置信地真實。再加上動作、生物、令人難以忘懷的陰影的暮色世界，弗雷澤塔的藝術就像薯片一樣讓人上癮。

原文簡介：

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50

years,\nhis fame only growing in the years since his death. With his paintings

now\nbreaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 209)

he’s\nlong overdue for this ultimate monograph.Born to a Sicilian immigrant

family\nin Brooklyn, 928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal

and\nserial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to

only\nmake art when there was nothing better to do – he preferred playing

baseball -\nyet began his professional career in comics at age 6. Strip work

led him to\nthe infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp

covers. Both\ncharacters were interpreted by many before him, but as he

explained in the\n970s, “I’m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan,

I knew guys just\nlike him,” and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle

and macho to\nredefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more

testosterone-\nfueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created

a new breed of\nwomen, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and

multiparous bodies:\nthick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out

to there, yet still,\nwith their soft bellies and hints of cellulite,

believably real. Add in the\naction, the creatures, the twilit worlds of

haunting shadow and Frazetta’s art\nis addictive as potato chips.\n\n