Mapplethorpe Flora

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3832709630

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Robert Mapplethorpe by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Pdf

Author : Frances Terpak,Michelle Brunnick
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Derek Conrad Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Patricia Morrisroe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589447

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Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe Pdf

With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than three hundred friends, lovers, family members, and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer. “Eventually I found several hundred people who knew Robert Mapplethorpe in all his various incarnations—Catholic schoolboy; ROTC cadet; hippie; sexual explorer; celebrated artist; and famous AIDS victim. Their stories helped animate his pictures and bring his visual diary to life. What I discovered wasn’t one “Perfect Moment” but a series of moments—some pure, some blemished, but all emblematic of the paradoxical times in which he lived.”—Patricia Morrisroe, from the Introduction NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Author : Paul Martineau,Britt Salvesen
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Robert Mapplethorpe,John Ashbery
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Phaidon Press, Incorporated
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0714877026

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Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers (Gift 2017) by Phaidon Press, Incorporated Pdf

Author : Robert Mapplethorpe,Arthur Coleman Danto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 022403605X

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Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe,Arthur Coleman Danto Pdf

Encompassing all aspects of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographic career, this book begins with his earliest unpublished Polaroid pictures, and continues with portraits of friends through to his more well-known works. By the photographer of Lady, Lisa Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Some Women.

Author : Janet Kardon,Robert Mapplethorpe,David Joselit,Kay Larson
Publisher : ICA Philadelphia
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Dominic Janes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350172623

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Freak to Chic by Dominic Janes Pdf

In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, 'gay' life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle in London. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-century men such as Cecil Beaton expressed transgressive desires in forms inspired by those labelled 'freaks' and, thereby, made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality, and celebrity. Janes reinterprets the origins of gay and queer cultures by charting the interactions between marginalized freaks and chic fashionistas. He establishes a new framework for future analyses of other cities and media, and of the roles of women and diverse identities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Flowers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000429857

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Flora Photographica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Laurent
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226321103

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Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery by Anna Laurent Pdf

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, wall charts were a familiar classroom component, displaying scientific images at a large scale, in full color. But it's only now that they've been superseded as a teaching tool that we have begun to realize something their ubiquity hid: they are stunning examples of botanical art at its finest. This beautifully illustrated oversized book gives the humble wall chart its due, reproducing more than two hundred of them in dazzling full color. Each wall chart is accompanied by captions that offer accessible information about the species featured, the scientists and botanical illustrators who created it, and any particularly interesting or innovative features the chart displays. And gardeners will be pleased to discover useful information about plant anatomy and morphology and species differences. We see lilies and tulips, gourds, aquatic plants, legumes, poisonous plants, and carnivorous plants, all presented in exquisite, larger-than-life detail. A unique fusion of art, science, and education, the wall charts gathered here offer a glimpse into a wonderful scientific heritage and are sure to thrill naturalists, gardeners, and artists alike.

Author : Tom Baril
Publisher : 4 Ad
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015040070305

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Tom Baril 1 by Tom Baril Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.