Robert Maplethorpe, The Complete Flowers, signed by Michael Ward Stout
Item Number: 408
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe, The Complete Flowers, Monograph published by teneues, 2006. Introduction by Charles Muschamp. Signed by the Foundation President Michael Ward Stout, who also contributed a foreword for the book.
Flower are one of the most common subjects for artwork, yet Mapplethorpe excels at bringing something radically new to his flower photographs. Setting them in a universe apart, their poses are classical, reduced to a series of essential forms. Their compositions are profoundly simple but mask a complex dynamic. Each one is evocative, and almost always sexually charged. When photographed by Mapplethorpe, these delicate organisms become almost muscular in their raw power.
Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and was raised in Long Island, New York. He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. By the early 1980s, he challenged the definition of photography with new techniques and formats. Mapplethorpe continued to create powerful images until his death from AIDS in 1989.
Donated by
Robert Mapplethore Foundation