ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: Photographs and Mannerist Prints
by [Robert Mapplethorpe]; Celant Germano and Arkady Ippolitov, With Karole Vail
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004. First Edition. With 120 beautifully reproduced plates and 30 text illustrations comparing Robert Mapplethorpe's photography to classical themes found in engraves and sculptures of various periods. 4to, publisher's original silver silk cloth lettered in blind, in the original photographically decorated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, small ink dot on bottom edge. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPRESSIVELY PRODUCED BOOK REPLETE WITH EXQUISITE PHOTOGRAPHS. "Through scholarly essays and sumptuous reproductions, this catalogue examines the obsessive themes of beauty, love. and classical art. The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's relationship to sculpture-namely the study of the human body - and the elongated, elaborate forms of mannerist art illuminates the underlying classicism evident in the clarity and sensual potency of all his subjects...
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- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28809
- Title
- ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: Photographs and Mannerist Prints
- Author
- [Robert Mapplethorpe]; Celant Germano and Arkady Ippolitov, With Karole Vail
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Guggenheim Museum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
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