Mapplethorpe And The Flower

Author : Derek Conrad Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350108783

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Mapplethorpe and the Flower by Derek Conrad Murray Pdf

Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs – and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations.

Author : The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3832709630

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Robert Mapplethorpe by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Pdf

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1838668217

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Mapplethorpe Flora by Robert Mapplethorpe Pdf

The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera, in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes - from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works. In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species - both common and rare - and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result - a stunning body of work - is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp.

Author : Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606064702

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick Pdf

Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe’s artistic vision helped shape the social and cultural fabric of the 1970s and ’80s and, following his death in 1989 from AIDS, informed the political landscape of the 1990s. His photographic works continue to resonate with audiences all over the world. Throughout his career, Mapplethorpe preserved studio files and art from every period and vein of his production, including student work, jewelry, sculptures, and commercial assignments. The resulting archive is fascinating and astonishing. With over 400 illustrations, this volume surveys a virtually unknown resource that sheds new light on the artist’s motivations, connections, business acumen, and talent as a curator and collector.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe,John Ashbery
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Flowers
ISBN : 0679408053

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Pistils by Robert Mapplethorpe,John Ashbery Pdf

Presents a rich collection of more than one hundred black-and-white and full-color photographs that capture the artist's remarkable flower images. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Peter Handke,Matthias Harder,Mila Moschik,Tina Teufel,Peter Weiermair,Veit Ziegelmaier
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Flowers in art
ISBN : 3777421545

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Flowers & Mushrooms by Peter Handke,Matthias Harder,Mila Moschik,Tina Teufel,Peter Weiermair,Veit Ziegelmaier Pdf

Few objects have been more symbolic in art through the ages than flowers: they have represented freshness and fertility, love in its many manifestations, transience and death. And yet in recent times they have often been reduced to a simple decorative motif. The mushroom has played a role as a remedy, a hallucinogenin the cultures of Mexico and the Vikings, and as a symbol within religious ritual. Today it can be a cheesy good luck charm or a trite hallucinogen. Contemporary art draws on these cliches and explores the long and rich tradition of such representations, contributing entirely new levels of meaning, from social criticism to feminism and from reflections on the media to the erotic. Essays by M. Harder, M. Moschik, T. Teufel, P. Weiermair, V. Ziegelmaier et al."

Author : Sixtine Dubly,Carlos Mota
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614285144

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Flowers: Art & Bouquets by Sixtine Dubly,Carlos Mota Pdf

Be it a single delicate bud in a simple clear vase or an explosion of colorful blossoms, a brilliant bouquet accents an atmosphere and brightens the mood like nothing else. The beauty of flowers has inspired artists, designers, poets, and myriad other creators for centuries: the Dutch masters of the 1600s and impressionist painters from Manet to Van Gogh, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret, even the inimitable Andy Warhol. Flowers: Art & Bouquets showcases a glorious profusion of floral images and interpretations across a spectrum of artistic media and time periods. Design writer Sixtine Dubly chronicles the evolution of floral design in this remarkable compendium, which also features stunning work by more than forty contemporary floral artists in London, Paris, and New York, from minimalist to elaborate. This treasury of gorgeous imagery blooms in resplendent color before the reader’s eyes.

Author : Paul Martineau,Britt Salvesen
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606064696

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Paul Martineau,Britt Salvesen Pdf

The legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 –1989) is rich and complicated, triggering controversy, polarizing critics, and providing inspiration for many artists who followed him. Mapplethorpe, one of the most influential figures of his time, today stands as an example to emerging photographers who continue to experiment with the boundaries and concepts of the beautiful. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs offers a timely and rewarding examination of his oeuvre and influence. Drawing from the extraordinary collection jointly acquired in 2011 by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, as well as the Mapplethorpe Archive housed at the Getty Research Institute, the authors were given the unique opportunity to explore new resources and present fresh perspectives. The result is a fascinating introduction to Mapplethorpe’s career and legacy, accompanied by a rich selection of illustrations covering the remarkable range of his photographic work. All of these beautifully integrated elements contribute to what promises to become an essential point of access to Mapplethorpe’s work and practice. This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Mediumon view at both the J. Paul Getty Museum and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from March 15 and March 20, respectively, through July 31, 2016; at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from September 10, 2016, through January 15, 2017; and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, from October 28, 2017, through February 4, 2018.

Author : Derek Conrad Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350108776

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Mapplethorpe and the Flower by Derek Conrad Murray Pdf

Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs – and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe,Gordon Baldwin,Daniel Cornell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124147484

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe,Gordon Baldwin,Daniel Cornell Pdf

Author : Janet Kardon,Robert Mapplethorpe,David Joselit,Kay Larson
Publisher : ICA Philadelphia
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032479508

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Janet Kardon,Robert Mapplethorpe,David Joselit,Kay Larson Pdf

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe,Herbert Muschamp
Publisher : TeNeues
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN : 383279168X

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Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe,Herbert Muschamp Pdf

Flower are one of the most common subjects for artwork, yet Mapplethorpe excels at bringing something radically new to his flower photographs. Setting them in a universe apart, their poses are classical, reduced to a series of essential forms. Their compositions are profoundly simple but mask a complex dynamic. Each one is evocative, and almost always sexually charged. When photographed by Mapplethorpe, these delicate organisms become almost muscular in their raw power. AUTHOR: Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and was raised in Long Island, New York. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. By the early 1980s, he challenged the definition of photography with new techniques and formats. Mapplethorpe continued to create powerful images until his death from AIDS in 1989. 53 colour & 227 duotone photos

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1838660852

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Flower by Anonim Pdf

Takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.

Author : Germano Celant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN : 8857222446

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Robert Mapplethorpe by Germano Celant Pdf

Robert Mapplethorpe's wide, provocative and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. The American photographer is mostly known for images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylised compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to list a few of his preferred genres. Since 1977 Germano Celant has come in contact with Robert Mapplethorpe, realising interviews and writing essays on the occasion of several publications and exhibitions. For the first time, this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celant's writings on the artist: from the 1983 exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, projected with the collaboration of the artist himself, to the posthumous writings published in the catalogues prepared on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg since 1990. This book, through over 140 images and texts that appear both personal and scientific, aims to pay tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe's contribution to the history of photography.

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0312083025

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Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe Pdf

An astonishing photographic study of black men today from the acclaimed portrait photographer.