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Robert Mapplethorpe and the classical tradition: photographs and Mannerist prints

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"Through scholarly essays and sumptuous reproductions, this catalogue examines the obsessive themes of beauty, love, and classical art. The photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's relationships 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, as well as their explosive energy."--Publisher's description.

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Images and icons / Arkady Ippolitov -- Classical allegory in photography / Jennifer Blessing -- Mapplethorpe as neoclassicist / Germano Celant.

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    Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, [2004]

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    • 9780892073139
    • 0892073136

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    • Published on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints: 2004/07/24-2004/10/17.
    • Essays by Arkady Ippolitov, Jennifer Blessing and Germano Celant.

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