Flora : the complete flowers /
"Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970. Beginning in 19...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Phaidon Press Incorporated,
2024.
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| Edition: | Revised and expanded edition. |
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| Summary: | "Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes--from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works. In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species--both common and rare--and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result--a stunning body of work--is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp." --Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 367 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-363). |
| ISBN: | 9781838668211 1838668217 |