MAPPLETHORPE, Robert; Arthur C. DANTO (essay). Mapplethorpe.

MAPPLETHORPE, Robert; Arthur C. DANTO (essay). Mapplethorpe. London: Jonathan Cape. 1995.

4to. Original grey cloth, in photographic dust-jacket, housed in photo-illustrated cloth slipcase; pp. 382, [2]; black-and-white photo-illustrations throughout; minimal wear to edge of jacket and slipcase; a near-fine copy, in like dust-jacket and slipcase.

First UK edition, second impression, with over three hundred full-page photographs, of this collection of Mapplethorpe's work prepared in collaboration with the Mapplethorpe Foundation, established by the artist in 1988, a year before his death, to provide funding for AIDS research and photographic projects.

First published in 1992, this edition presents the full range of Mapplethorpe’s expansive oeuvre, from early polaroids to some of the last self-portraits taken shortly before his death in 1989. Arthur C. Danto (1924–2013), art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University, had also contributed a prefatory essay to Playing with the Edge: the Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe.

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