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The theme of flowers is woven throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's oeuvre, coming to signify some of his deepest concerns as an artist. The photographs in Flowers range from images of the early 1980's to many taken in the months just before his death.
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Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most important figures in contemporary photography. Brilliant, daring, and supremely accomplished, he will be remembered for the classical harmonies, controversial subject matter, and luminous vision that marked his photographs. He died in 1989.
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Patti Smith's foreword, "A Final Flower," is a poetic tribute to the late photographer whose recent retrospective exhibition sparked a national legal debate over censorship in the arts. Smith's observation that Mapplethorpe embraced "the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within," and in these photographs "found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else," enlarges this work in a meaningful way. The 50 color photographs of flowers taken over the past decade "by one who caused a modern shudder" are surprisingly conventional yet uniquely striking in their composition and lighting; Smith attributes their power to Mapplethorpe's "unflinching perception of the color, form and personality of the flower." The book's simple and sublime presentation--each opening a full-page plate facing a blank--serves to remind us that Mapplethorpe was a masterful photographer, not just an iconoclast.
- Ann Copeland, Champaign, Ill.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Flowers
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Non-paginated. Softcover with stunning full color photography throughout. Features forward written by Patti Smith. Light tone to edges throughout & light wear to edges of paper wraps. Some toning & soiling to front & rear covers. Else clean. Record # 6670012. Seller Inventory # 6670012
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Flowers - Mapplethorpe
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Bullfinch Press / Little Brown Boston 1990, 1993
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31.0 x 25.5cms96pp 49 colour illusts very good+ paperback Mapplethorpe took these photographs throughout the 1980s. Seller Inventory # 20270025
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FLOWERS. Foreword by Patti Smith.
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