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Playing with the edge
the photographic achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe
By Danto, Arthur Coleman & Mapplethorpe, Robert
- ISBN
- 978-0-52020-051-7
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 1995
Describing and dissecting Mapplethorpe's oeuvre and place in art history might be given as an entrance exam for aspiring critics. Perhaps no other contemporary photographer has been so widely written about, yet virtually no one seems capable of addressing the whole of his work. Supporters too often ignore the uncomfortable content or discuss the beauty of contradiction, while detractors m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
