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Title: Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe, Ingrid Sischy ISBN: 1892041162 Publisher: Arena Editions Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43
Rating: 3
Summary: A thought-provoking collection of Mapplethorpe's sex picture
Comment: This collection of pictures is bound in a good quality cover and printed on a glossy paper of reasonable quality.
The images themselves are, in the main, sex pictures; S&M pictures; and a few portraits. The sex pictures are quite grotesque, concentrating as they do on the pain, blood, urine, bondage and so on. Whether you'll enjoy these depends on your view of the subject. Personally, I didn't find them uplifting or illuminating. The models were sullen, looked unhappy, or downright sad: but then I suppose if your... has been nailed to a plank you're entitled to be a little shaken!
The few portraits included in this volume were entirely unpleasing, and not representative of Mapplethorpe's better work. They offered no real insight ot the subjects, who remained cold and aloof, detached it seems from the process of making art.
This is a collection of many of Mapplethorpe's more 'sensational' and 'shocking' images. Whether you are affronted or not they do deserve inspection, if only to see what the 'conservatives' tried to ban. You might actually feel repulsed and agree that these pictures are not art but pornography.
Rating: 2
Summary: One word: Ouch
Comment: You can always debate whether this book is "art" or not, but the fact is I am worried about what happened to some of the subjects. Helmut? Are you okay? I think Mapplethorpe wanted to shock, and he did, but I found the pictures had too much pain in them to be appreciated. I was deadened to what Mapplethorpe wanted to say, if he wanted to say anything at all. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Rating: 3
Summary: very good book
Comment: artistic and powerful, i recommend it
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Title: Robert Mapplethorpe Black Book by Robert Mapplethorpe ISBN: 0312021666 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: August, 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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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: Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0679408045 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Mapplethorpe: Assault With a Deadly Camera by Jack Fritscher ISBN: 0803893620 Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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