Robert Mapplethorpe (by Richard Marshall) Flip Through

Описание: Robert Mapplethorpe
by Richard Marshall
1988
Softcover
$25 USD
220 Pages
Whitney Museum of American Art
ISBN: 978 087 4270 60 0
Photography Book

Official Description Provided for Book:
Even a superficial glance at this sampling of Robert Mapplethorpe's work makes it clear that the tempest has outgrown its teapot. Had Sen. Jesse Helms and his ilk not turned these photographs into a cause ceelebre, few people would have paid any attention to them. Mapplethorpe was a successful commercial photographer, and his pictures rarely transcend a fashion-magazine sensibility, despite references to Edward Weston, George Platt Lynes et al. The background in a portrait of a gay S-M couple is so cluttered with bric-a-brac, the result looks like a glossy magazine ad for a ritzy interior designer. The most disturbing element of his infamous "erotic" works is not their sexual content but their coldness. His nude studies of muscular black men look so remote and objectified, they suggest Pygmalion asking Venus to turn Galatea back into a statue. An offbeat coffeetable book for people who want to find out what the brouhaha in Cincinnati is about without bothering to fly to Ohio.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:17 Robert Mapplethorpe
00:25 Contents
00:30 Torn Armstrong's Foreword
00:35 Richard Marshall's 'Mapplethorpe's Vision'
03:36 A Society Artist
07:02 The Mapplethorpe Effect
09:20 List of Illustrations
09:32 Selected Exhibitions
09:37 Selected Biography
09:47 Acknowledgments
10:00 Ending
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