Mapplethorpe

(WOLK, SYLVIA, TEXT). Polaroids. Mappelthorpe.

New York, etc., Prestel Verlag, 2008. With 183 full-page plates. Decorated boards. Hardbound. 8vo. 254 pp. With original slipcase. Text in English. (A fine copy). Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. Revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career, this book brings together almost three hundred images, many never published, from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. Included is a selection of his colour Polaroids and objects incorporating his early instant photographs. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, while others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author traces the development of Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography during a period of five years, from 1970 to 1975, when the artist worked mainly in this medium. The images include self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, portraits of lovers and friends such as Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff and Marianne Faithful and observations of everyday objects. Marked by a spontaneity and creative curiosity, these fragile images offer an illuminating contrast to the glossy perfection of the work for which Mapplethorpe is best known, allowing us a more personal glimpse of his artistry. (booknr: 35548)

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Patricia Morrisroe. Robert Mapplethorpe. Eine Biographie. München. Gina Kehayoff. 1999
ISBN-10: 3929078503. From BooklistHow did a middle-class Catholic boy from Queens become one of the world's most controversial artists? Morrisroe, who met Mapplethorpe at the pinnacle of his fame and the beginning of his rapid descent toward death from AIDS, provides as cogent an explanation as possible in an excellent biography notable for its dramatic structure and candor. Morrisroe tracks Mapplethorpe's brief and excessive life from his awkward boyhood, through his miasmic college and ROTC years, to his abrupt sexual and artistic liberation when he discovered drugs and gay S & M bars, habits he overindulged in right up to his death at age 43. Mapplethorpe's story is tied inextricably to the life story of his closest friend, sometime lover, and most important muse, Patti Smith, who Morrisroe also portrays with skill and ardor. Morrisroe does a superb job of conjuring the New York art and club scene during the 1970s and 1980s and of tracing the evolution of Mapplethorpe's troubling art. A photographer perversely proud of his lack of technical knowledge, Mapplethorpe had a brilliant but cold eye and ruthlessly objectified his sex partners and models. The truth is, Mapplethorpe was fixated on transgression, sadism, evil, and death. Incapable of love, he used and abused people, including himself. But these harsh truths don't detract from his impact as an artist or diminish the raw power of his images. There is a dark side to every aspect of life, even beauty. Dona Matrixx.

Pociao und Peter Hiess. 446 S. 23,8 x 16, Gut, sauber. Schutzumschlag etwas berieben., Karton Hardcover mit Originalschutzumschlag.

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Mapplethorpe, Robert - Celant, Germano/ Ippolitov, Arkady: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: PHOTOGRAPHS AND MANNERIST PRINTS. New York, Guggenheim Foundation 2005.
IN ENGLISCHER SPRACHE - IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.; Der Amerikaner Robert Mapplethorpe gilt als einer der wichtigsten Künstler in der Geschichte der Fotografie. Seine einzigartigen Blumenstillleben und die hochästhetischen, mitunter provozierenden Akte ("Pornobilder", SZ) und Porträts sind "ein Mix aus Schock und Schöpfung" (Stern). Seine Fotos werden von Kunstkritikern in aller Welt "mit überschwänglichen Worten übergossen" (Stern). Die Hautevolee stand Schlange vor seinem Studio, 10.000 Dollar kostete die Sitzung. Ein Mapplethorpe-Porträt gehörte zum gesellschaftlichen Must der 80er Jahre. Dieser Prachtband des New Yorker Guggenheim Museums zeigt die Fotos von Mapplethorpe ("Ich möchte, daß meine Werke primär als Kunst gesehen werden und erst sekundär als Fotografie") und seine Vorbilder: nebeneinander.Und lässt so die wichtigsten Arbeiten von Mapplethorpe in einen spannenden Dialog über Liebe, Eros, Schönheit mit Michelangelos "David", mit Canova, de Vries, Renoir, Dali u.a. treten. Mit drei einführenden Essays ausgewiesener Kunstexperten zur klassischen Allegorie (Jennifer Blessing), zu den Facetten des Eros (Germano Celant) u.a.; Internationale Ausgabe des Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums, New York. ; "Ich warte auf den magischen Moment, dann mache ich das Bild ... Wenn ich Bilder mache, es ist egal, ob es eine Blume, ein Schwanz oder eine Gesicht ist, ich sehe die Form und die Schönheit" (R.M.), TADELLOSER ZUSTAND

Silberfarb.Lwd.m.gepr.Deckel -u.Rü.-tit., OSU., 231 S., M.168 Abb.a.Taf.

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Robert Mapplethorpe; Mapplethorpe. Reprint at special price, Germany teNeues 2011
This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography, is once again available in a new, updated edition. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes and other works, including his best known and most controversial images. Mapplethorpe's choices were both innovative and bold, and his work has continued to resonate since his early death in 1989. His cutting-edge use of homoerotic and other challenging themes has become embedded in our culture, with pervasive echoes not only in the work of other artists but in mainstream advertising as well. Reprint - Special price: 59,- euro instead of 98,- euro.

Hardback, 308x292mm, 384p, 286 duotone illustrations. ISBN 9783832792145.

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