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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fritscher, Jack (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mamaroneck, NY : Hastings House, [1994]
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.