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The stamps were a quick success, with presales alone to 178 countries (Matson-Mäkelä 2014). The designer, Timo Berry, described the stamps as ‘depicting sensuous force of living and pride in oneself’ (Posti 2014). In 2014, the Finnish Post Office released a sheet of three stamps to celebrate Tom of Finland.
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As I discuss in the following, the commodification and public circulation of Tom of Finland’s work for the purposes of both corporate profit and national brand building is noteworthy, not least given its homoerotic pornographic overtones. The enthusiasm with which Tom of Finland has recently been embraced and celebrated as a public figure is nevertheless exceptional, as well as paradoxical. Following a decades-long tradition, Finnish media eagerly reports on the international recognition of its citizens, occasionally framing them as builders of, or ambassadors to the country’s national image. It is not extraordinary for a small country to recognise its most internationally known artist, especially when this artist incorporated the name of the said country in question in his alias. Six years later, Touko Laaksonen was one of the official themes of the centennial celebration of Finnish independence. A high-profile occasion, the show was visited by VIP guests ranging from politicians to Sweden’s Crown Princess, Victoria. In 2011, Turku, one of the European Capitals of Culture, celebrated the occasion with the largest Tom of Finland retrospective ever seen in the country, titled ‘Tom Comes Home!’ (‘Tom palaa kotiin!’). Taken together, these three contributions address both the enduring appeal of Tom of Finland’s work as well as the busy traffic that it engenders across the categories of pornography, art and consumer culture.
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In her piece, Leena-Maija Rossi maps out Tom of Finland’s gradual entrance into the art world while Annamari Vänskä investigates the circuits of influence between Tom’s visual iconography and the fashioning of the male body. This introductory essay maps out the fairly recent rise of commodity production drawing on Tom of Finland’s work in his country of origin, and inquires after the paradoxes involved in reframing his iconography as an object of national pride and joy.
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Approaching Tom of Finland’s work as cultural objects, this forum is interested in its diverse locations and travels across contexts of production, distribution and consumption, as well as in its entanglement in the circuits of politics, monetization and cultural value. This Porn Studies forum expands considerations of Tom of Finland’s legacy from gay male cultures to the diverse ways in which it has been made to enter broader cultural circulation and commodity production. His homoerotic – and unabashedly pornographic – work has been acknowledged as key influence for the aesthetics of gay male leather cultures and gay pornography (see Lahti 1998 Mercer 2003 Snaith 2003 Kalha 2012, Vänskä in this issue). Tom of Finland, alias Touko Laaksonen (8 May, 1920–7 November, 1991), remains the internationally most known and recognized Finnish visual artist. Tom of Finland comes home, keeps on coming Here’s the text, with some additional pics. The song is on DJ Hell's new album, Zukunftsmusik, which will be released in 2017.My introduction to a forum on Tom of Finland us just out with Porn Studies. With my new album I want to pay tribute to that movement and that time by highlighting Tom’s work.” "The soundtrack for those nights was presented by DJs like Ron Hardy and Larry Levan, bringing DJ/club culture and gay culture together. "House music emerged from that very early underground club scene in Chicago and New York City, with legendary clubs like The Warehouse and the Paradise Garage," DJ Hell explained. Tom of Finland was the perfect visual accompaniment for the new track, which centres on love between two men. The song flicks through much of Tom's art and progressively gets less and less safe for work. Tom's former partner encouraged him to incorporate the drawings into an animated music video. The pictures drawn by the late Touko Laaksonen - better known as Tom of Finland - have made a comeback in the form of a music video for DJ Hell's track I Want U.ĭJ Hell visited Tom House, in Los Angeles, where Tom of Finland spent the last decade of his life. The world-famous homoerotic illustrations from the late Fifties are back in a new music video.