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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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Мова: | Англійська |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing USA,
2020.
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| Онлайн доступ: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2478969 |
Зміст:
- 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