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Allen Ellenzweig, George Stambolian
The Homoerotic Photograph : Male Images from Durieu / Delacroix to Mapplethorpe
by Columbia University Press (Hardcover)

-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Robert Mapplethorpe
Some Women
by Bulfinch Press (Perfect Paperback)

A celebration of female beauty by one of the world's most controversial and acclaimed photographers includes more than eighty photographs of his friends, fellow artists, children, and such celebrities as Susan Sarandon, Isabella Rossellini, and Yoko Ono. Reprint. QPB.

Richard Marshall
Robert Mapplethorpe: Autoportrait:
by Arena Editions (Hardcover)

Robert Mapplethorpe is best known for his intentionally shocking, often sculptural erotica and his exquisite minimalist floral images. His earliest and most frequent subject was himself, in various guises that celebrated his ego, his body, and his sexual preferences. Taken in the early 1970s, these 65 self-portraits, most previously unpublished, create a window into the soul of a complex artist, and present Mapplethorpe’s singular vision that helped shift the direction of late-20th-century art. As with all Arena Editions publications, this book features top-of-the-line production values, with beautiful papers, printing, and binding.

Mapplethorpe Flowers 2004 Calendar
by Te Neues Publishing Company (Calendar)

Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment
by Inst of Contemporary Art (Paperback)

Arthur C. Danto
Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe
by University of California Press (Hardcover)

Arthur Danto's assessment of the achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe is a lucid and graceful introduction to a controversial artist by the most distinguished philosophical critic of the arts in our time. While fully addressing the most public dimensions of Mapplethorpe's career--the branding of his work as pornography and the legal and censorship issues that surround the exhibition of his photographs--Danto's essay breaks with common responses by offering a fascinating and deeply sympathetic account of Mapplethorpe's aesthetics.In Playing with the Edge, Arthur Danto returns the discussion of Mapplethorpe to a consideration of his artistic legacy. He refuses to retreat from the sexual content of Mapplethorpe's images, claiming that the content and the artistic character of the photographs simultaneously invite and deflect the charges of pornography and together define the importance of Mapplethorpe's work. Danto discerns the images' uniqueness in the relation of trust between the ...

Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Chatwin
Lady Lisa Lyon
by St Martins Pr (Hardcover)

Mapplethorpe's provocative portrait of Lisa Lyon, the first World Women's Bodybuilding Champion. A commanding work of photography by a modern master of the art.

Robin Gibson
Mapplethorpe Portraits
by Antique Collectors Club Ltd (Paperback)

Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe: Certain People : A Book of Portraits
by Twelvetrees (Hardcover)

Robert Mapplethorpe
Lady: 2Lisa Lyon by Mapplethorpe (A Studio book)
by Studio (Hardcover)

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