Mapplethorpe : assault with a deadly camera : a pop culture memoir, an outlaw reminiscence /
Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized the Roaring '20s, Jack Fritscher captures the essence of the tumultuous '70s. Against a backdrop of riotous pop culture and gay life in America, this uncensored memoir offers a candid view of Robert Mapplethorpe who died of AIDS at age 42. This book...
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Mamaroneck, NY :
Hastings House,
[1994]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : "Mein camp"
- Pentimento for Robert Mapplethorpe : fetishes, faces, and flowers of evil
- Adventures with Robert Mapplethorpe (adult discretion advisory)
- Mapplethorpe as cultural terrorist
- Popping culture, drugs, and sex
- Pop culture babies and the women who love them
- Mapplethorpe's sexual ambiguity
- Some women
- Gay artists and the straight women who love them
- First blush : Holly Solomon discovers Robert Mapplethorpe
- Robert Oplethorpe : streaking the Academy Awards
- The muse is a bitch
- Portrait of the artist as a young suicide
- Merchandising the magical, mystical Mapplethorpe tour that's coming to take you away
- Blind man's bluff
- White art, black men
- Mapplethorpe mentor : George Dureau
- 1982 : exclusive prophesy! Mapplethorpe on censorship!
- 1978 : Pasolini's last picture show
- Risking the Mapplethorpe curse
- Mapplechrist superstar.