Nudity Loves Company.You may have never heard of Tom of Finland Tom of Finland (May 8, 1920 – November 7, 1991) (born Touko Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland) was a fetish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. , aka Touko Laaksonen. But the acclaimed work of the 1950s' artist includes drawings of buff men in bodybuilding bodybuilding Developing of the physique through exercise and diet, often for competitive exhibition. Bodybuilding aims at displaying pronounced muscle tone and exaggerated muscle mass and definition for overall aesthetic effect. postures that can be found today in the L.A. County Museum of Art. Now, the L.A.-based Tom of Finland Foundation plans to award Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner with its lifetime achievement award during the Sixth Annual Erotic Art Weekend in Hollywood this Oct. 13-15. Foundation spokesman Tom Berkowitz credits Hefner with taking nudity out of the backroom back·room n. or back room 1. A room located at the rear. 2. The meeting place used by an inconspicuous controlling group. adj. 1. and making it respectable. Laaksonen's work came to "personify per·son·i·fy tr.v. per·son·i·fied, per·son·i·fy·ing, per·son·i·fies 1. To think of or represent (an inanimate object or abstraction) as having personality or the qualities, thoughts, or movements of a living being: the masculine ideal," Berkowitz said. "And Hefner was about as masculine as you can get wearing a bathrobe and surrounded by a bunch of bunnies." |
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