Robert Mapplethorpe: Flowers

Author: Robert Mapplethorpe; Patti Smith (Text by)

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  • : $85.00 AUD
  • : 9783829606783
  • : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
  • : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
  • : 1.11856
  • : May 2014
  • : 340mm X 280mm X 16mm
  • : 79.95
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Robert Mapplethorpe; Patti Smith (Text by)
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  • : Hardback
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  • : 140
  • : 60 colour plates
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Barcode 9783829606783
9783829606783

Description

Among the motifs considered to be typically Mapplethorpe--i.e. nudes, portraits, black men, and the New York gay scene--flowers had a firmly-established (albeit less spectacular) position. The first date from the seventies; the last were taken shortly before his death. Design was also dominant here; the perfect, emphatically artifical arrangement. And in the final analysis, he was also concerned with the same subject: stylizing sexuality into a still life. Under Mapplethorpe's gaze, flowers lose their mellifluous-ness and innocent symbolism. They suddenly reveal a perfidious, at times decadent, eloquence. Once again one encounters two things in their utmost perfection: erotic drama and absolute clarity of composition--the celestial poles and quintessence of Mapplethorpe's work. His long-time partner, singer-songwriter Patti Smith, composed a farewell poem for this volume.