Robert Mapplethorpe : the photographs / Paul Martineau and Britt Salvesen ; with contributions by Philip Gefter, Jonathan D. Katz, Ryan Linkof, Richard Meyer, Carol Squiers.
Publisher:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
ix, 330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from March 15 to July 31, 2016, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from March 20 to July 31, 2016; subsequently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from September 10, 2016, to January 15, 2017; and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, from October 2017 to February 2018"--ECIP galley. "This exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art"--Page iv. Includes bibliographical references {pages 319-324) and index.
Contents:
Mapplethorped: art, photography, and the pornographic imagination / Richard Meyer -- Flesh and spirit: Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff, and the gay sensibility / Philip Gefter -- Robert Mapplethorpe's queer classicism: the substance of style / Jonathan D. Katz -- A disciplined style: fashion and fetishism in the art of Robert Mapplethorpe / Ryan Linkof -- Mapplethorpe: portrait/self-portrait / Carol Squiers.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.