Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control.
"Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photog...
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Zusammenfassung: | "Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy-triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs-and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations."-- |
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Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
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spelling | Murray, Derek Conrad. Mapplethorpe and the Flower [electronic resource] : Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020. 1 online resource (249 p.) Description based upon print version of record. Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MAPPLETHORPE, ART HISTORY, AND THE PROBLEM OF DIFFERENCE -- The Troubling of Appearances -- Liberal Tolerance and the Culturalization of Politics: A Critique -- The Politics of Recognition and the Imaging of Difference -- Queer Liberalism and Mapplethorpe's Objectionable Objects -- Looking Ahead -- Notes -- 1 A PROMISCUOUS EYE: ON RACE AND THE FLOWER -- Black Men with Flowers -- The Interpretive Black Hole -- Mapplethorpe and the American Racial Melodrama Splendid Bodies, Erotic Fantasies, Exotic Blooms -- Notes -- 2 THE LIMITS OF CONTROL -- Decompartmentalizing Mapplethorpe -- Ritual, Defiance, and Transgression -- An Incendiary Bloom -- Risky Subjects: Dureau, Athey, Opie -- Notes -- 3 MAPPLETHORPE'S EXOTIC BLOOM: UPENDING THE BOURGEOIS OBSESSION WITH IDEALS -- The Rotting Flower -- Flowers and Queer World-making -- Still Life with Poetry -- Fantasias of Queer Desire -- Notes -- 4 SEX, DEATH, AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE INCENDIARY FORMALISM OF THE FLOWER -- Decay, Death, Transcendence, Memorial -- Black Flowers: Baechler The Immortal Bloom: Schnabel, Koons -- Araki and Mapplethorpe -- Conclusion: Out of the Interpretive Box -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX "Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy-triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs-and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations."-- Provided by publisher. Mapplethorpe, Robert Criticism and interpretation. Mapplethorpe, Robert fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcr9m6783hkCPBDQRjpyd Flowers in art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049347 Photography of plants United States. Photographers United States Biography. Fleurs dans l'art. Photographes États-Unis Biographies. Botanical art. bicssc Flowers in art fast Photographers fast Photography of plants fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Biographies fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast has work: Mapplethorpe and the flower (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFBVyMGY4MWmPMr6rp6D4q https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Murray, Derek Conrad Mapplethorpe and the Flower : Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,c2020 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2478969 Volltext |
spellingShingle | Murray, Derek Conrad Mapplethorpe and the Flower Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MAPPLETHORPE, ART HISTORY, AND THE PROBLEM OF DIFFERENCE -- The Troubling of Appearances -- Liberal Tolerance and the Culturalization of Politics: A Critique -- The Politics of Recognition and the Imaging of Difference -- Queer Liberalism and Mapplethorpe's Objectionable Objects -- Looking Ahead -- Notes -- 1 A PROMISCUOUS EYE: ON RACE AND THE FLOWER -- Black Men with Flowers -- The Interpretive Black Hole -- Mapplethorpe and the American Racial Melodrama Splendid Bodies, Erotic Fantasies, Exotic Blooms -- Notes -- 2 THE LIMITS OF CONTROL -- Decompartmentalizing Mapplethorpe -- Ritual, Defiance, and Transgression -- An Incendiary Bloom -- Risky Subjects: Dureau, Athey, Opie -- Notes -- 3 MAPPLETHORPE'S EXOTIC BLOOM: UPENDING THE BOURGEOIS OBSESSION WITH IDEALS -- The Rotting Flower -- Flowers and Queer World-making -- Still Life with Poetry -- Fantasias of Queer Desire -- Notes -- 4 SEX, DEATH, AND TRANSCENDENCE: THE INCENDIARY FORMALISM OF THE FLOWER -- Decay, Death, Transcendence, Memorial -- Black Flowers: Baechler The Immortal Bloom: Schnabel, Koons -- Araki and Mapplethorpe -- Conclusion: Out of the Interpretive Box -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Mapplethorpe, Robert Criticism and interpretation. Mapplethorpe, Robert fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcr9m6783hkCPBDQRjpyd Flowers in art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049347 Photography of plants United States. Photographers United States Biography. Fleurs dans l'art. Photographes États-Unis Biographies. Botanical art. bicssc Flowers in art fast Photographers fast Photography of plants fast |
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title | Mapplethorpe and the Flower Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
title_auth | Mapplethorpe and the Flower Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
title_exact_search | Mapplethorpe and the Flower Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
title_full | Mapplethorpe and the Flower [electronic resource] : Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
title_fullStr | Mapplethorpe and the Flower [electronic resource] : Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
title_full_unstemmed | Mapplethorpe and the Flower [electronic resource] : Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
title_short | Mapplethorpe and the Flower |
title_sort | mapplethorpe and the flower radical sexuality and the limits of control |
title_sub | Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control. |
topic | Mapplethorpe, Robert Criticism and interpretation. Mapplethorpe, Robert fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcr9m6783hkCPBDQRjpyd Flowers in art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049347 Photography of plants United States. Photographers United States Biography. Fleurs dans l'art. Photographes États-Unis Biographies. Botanical art. bicssc Flowers in art fast Photographers fast Photography of plants fast |
topic_facet | Mapplethorpe, Robert Criticism and interpretation. Mapplethorpe, Robert Flowers in art. Photography of plants United States. Photographers United States Biography. Fleurs dans l'art. Photographes États-Unis Biographies. Botanical art. Flowers in art Photographers Photography of plants United States Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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