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Title: Mapplethorpe: Assault With a Deadly Camera by Jack Fritscher ISBN: 0-8038-9362-0 Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mildly interesting, mostly annoying and self-aggrandizing.
Comment: It's been about two years since I read this book, but its lingering effect is extreme irritation with the writer. Fritscher is clearly far more interested in himself than in Mapplethorpe, and boastfully uses the subject of his "biography" (term used charitably) as little more than a tool with which to broadcast his own (clearly exaggerated) influence on -- and involvement with -- the photographer. While I don't doubt that Fritscher played a small role in Mapplethorpe's life and art, I don't for a second believe that it was even a tiny fraction of what he'd like you to believe. Jack, you were one of a large pool of pornographers and one of an even more humongous population of RM's lovers. This bio reeks of little more than self-promotion and self-promoting fiction, and the fact that it was penned posthumously makes it even more disgusting and annoying.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very interesting "read" that penetrates 70s art &sex world
Comment: Written as a tell-all memoir of pop culture, this book is amazing in what it tells us about lost lives in lost times. Real nostalgia. Actually, this book is loaded with "gay street credential." The fact that it has an index tells you the book seriously intends to record history's major and minor characters. Many gay pop culture books don't even bother to have an index which makes them useless. My litmus test in a book store is to first see if a book has an index, and then I skim it to see who's included and who's not, because that way I can judge the book's presentation and prejudices. Too bad Patty Smith doesn't write about Mapplethorpe and this period like his boyfriend did in writing this attack on American lying, political hypocrisy, and phoney art wackjobs. What is generously amazing is that boyfriend Fritscher seems to genuinely miss and mourne Mapplethorpe to the degree that he devotes 60% of the book to direct interviews with other Mapplethorpe art friends like George Dureau, Joel-Peter Witkin, and others who all speak for themselves.
Rating: 3
Summary: Well written, but...
Comment: I don't know the man any better after reading this book than I did before. But I do have some compassion now for the lifestyle choices he and others made, and the logic behind those choices. He seemed driven to the self-destruction which he achieved.
The book was well written and personal to an uncomfortable extreme. I don't think it was a waste of time, but as a non-gay, non-avant garde person, I am happy to say that I don't feel included in the audience of this book.
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Title: Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe ISBN: 0306807661 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe, Ingrid Sischy ISBN: 1892041162 Publisher: Arena Editions Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: What They Did to the Kid: Confessions of an Altar Boy, A Tale of Priest Abuse by Jack Fritscher ISBN: 1890834378 Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe ISBN: 0312021666 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 15 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0520200519 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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