Cail Karole (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Light shelf wear. English. Cream-colored cloth, gray & photographic dust jacket, 231 pp., many illus., chiefly in color. Issued in conjunction with a 2004 exhbiition that explored "the relationship between the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe and Classical art, in particular through Mannerist engravings and sculpture. The pairing of works is among the first collaborations between the Guggenheim Museum and the State Hermitage Museum. Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition exemplifies the artist's rapport with the elongated and elaborate forms of Mannerist art, namely the study of the human body, highlighting the underlying classicism evident in the clarity and potency of all Mapplethorpe's subjects as well as their explosive energy." (publisher) With essays by Arkady Ippolitov, Jennifer Blessing and Germano Celant.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. B & W Photos and reproductions; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 208 pages; 2004 Guggenheim Museum. Oversize square-format hardcover in dust jacket. 1st edition, published in conjunction with the 2004 exhibition examining the relationship between Robert Mapplethorpe's photography and classical Mannerist print traditions. Tightly bound and fresh in uniformly bright, sharp-edged black-and-white photographic dust jacket. Contents bright and clean; no marks. Trace shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Lavishly illustrated with Mapplethorpe's photographs alongside reproductions of Mannerist prints, situating his work within a longer continuum of idealized form and stylized figuration. NF/NF. . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.