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	self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert Mapplethorpe was born November 4, 1946 in Floral Parks, Queens.
		Mapplethorpe loathed being labeled the "gay artist" yet his rise to fame was a result of the acceptance of his gay creativity in the arts.
		Mapplethorpe lived for his sexual encounters, and in fact had sexual relations with 75% of the men he photographed.
	www.temple.edu /photo/photographers/mapplethorpe/self.html (248 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, famous for his large-scale, highly-stylized fl and white portraits, photos of flowers and male nudes.
		Mapplethorpe is best known for his Portfolio X series that sparked national attention because of its explicit content and the funding of the effort by the NEA, including a photo of himself with a bullwhip inserted in his anus.
		Mapplethorpe died on the morning of March 9, 1989, in a Boston, Massachusetts hospital from complications arising from AIDS; he was 42 years old.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe (587 words)

	The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. \| Biography
		With characteristic foresight, Mapplethorpe decided to move forward immediately, realizing that the only way to ensure that the proposed foundation would become the institution he envisioned was to establish it and make it fully operational while he was still alive to oversee it.
		Robert Mapplethorpe funded the Foundation with substantial contributions, selected four trustees to serve with him on its board, and was appointed its first president.
		Mapplethorpe is considered by many art scholars to be among the most important American photographers of the latter half of the twentieth century.
	www.mapplethorpe.org /foundation.html (809 words)

	MSN Encarta - Robert Mapplethorpe
		Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), American photographer, whose work is critically acclaimed despite accusations of pornographic content in some of his photographs.
		Mapplethorpe had one-man shows at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1978), the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (1983), and the Whitney Museum in New York (1988).
		Mapplethorpe, who was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1986, died of the disease.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553055/Robert_Mapplethorpe.html (310 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Mapplethorpe - Biography
		Robert Mapplethorpe was born November 4, 1946, in Floral Park, New York.
		It was not Mapplethorpe’s original intention to be a photographer, and from 1970 to 1974, he mainly made assemblage constructions that incorporate images of men from pornographic magazines with found objects and painting.
		Mapplethorpe had his first substantial shows in 1977, both in New York: an exhibition of photographs of flowers at the Holly Solomon Gallery and one of male nudes and sadomasochistic imagery at the Kitchen.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_97A.html (541 words)

	Biography
		Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 as third of six children and spent a sheltered childhood on Long Island.
		With this so-called 'brutalic chic' Mapplethorpe met the taste of the time in the 1980s.
		Robert Mapplethorpe's uvre was intrinsically tied to the terms sex and excess, lust and dominance, which makes him one of the most discussed, but also most important photographers of our time.
	www.robert-mapplethorpe.com (293 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe (c1974)
		Mapplethorpe had been making rough-and-ready collages with a religious quality; he came from a Catholic background and constantly returned to the idea of an altarpiece, as well as taking an intense pleasure in blasphemy.
		The relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe is shrouded in ambiguity; according to Mapplethorpe's biographer Patricia Morrisoe, Smith was shocked when she discovered the true nature of his sexuality.
		Mapplethorpe's pictures played an important part in shaping her fame; he also took the picture that appears on the cover of her 1975 album Horses.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /portrait/story/0,11109,739729,00.html (565 words)

	Alison Jacques Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mapplethorpe is considered one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century and this is a unique opportunity to discover his work through the eyes of another artist.
		Hockney went on to be photographed by Mapplethorpe on several occasions including the well known 1976 portrait on New York’s Fire Island with Henry Geldzahler, the renowned curator and cultural commissioner of New York in the 70s.
		Highlighting Mapplethorpe's aesthetic sensibility, the controlled balance between light and shadow, balance and symmetry, beauty and obscenity; Hockney takes the viewer on a personal selection of portraits, still lives, flowers and nudes in what is a fresh and previously unseen overview of the photographer’s work to date.
	www.alisonjacquesgallery.com /05_mapplethorpe.php (518 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe's Sensationalism
		It's an admirable project to want to liberate Mapplethorpe from the controversy that made him notorious and to reveal the gifts that his admirers believe his infamy overshadowed.
		In the entirely art-historical context that the show attempts to provide, Mapplethorpe's work seems to need to be completed by the very sensationalist content for which he was vilified.
		Fifteen years after the dark side of Mapplethorpe's imagination made the politics of NEA-funding a public issue, one type of politics or another has purged Mapplethorpe's imagination of its dark originality But, then, the hidden violence of a public embrace is maybe the dirtiest private secret of them all.
	www.slate.com /id/2123639/slideshow/2123637/fs/0/entry/2123624 (203 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Robert Mapplethorpe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert Mapplethorpe's photography has become overshadowed by the controversy that surrounds much of it.
		Mapplethorpe's imagery is clear and crisp, with a neutral background--he focuses completely on his subjects, composing everything as a still life.
		Mapplethorpe, however, found photography by accident and continued to use it because it provided a viable outlet by which to express his ideas and make a statement.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200786 (841 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe's extraordinary vision
		Mapplethorpe was very conscious of these religious undertones and was quoted in one interview as saying: "I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday.
		Mapplethorpe had a remarkable ability to reveal the inner spirit of his subjects: Performance artist Laurie Anderson smiles winsomely, her eyes betraying her mischieviousness; Louise Bourgeois grins wickedly, her giant bronze sculpture of a penis clutched underneath her arm.
		Mapplethorpe's favorite human subjects, however, were himself and his close friend, poet and singer, Patti Smith.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N31/mapple.31a.html (1658 words)

	Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most controversial artists of the 1980s.
		The book is particularly strong in depicting Mapplethorpe's close relationship with Patti Smith during the years when they lived together in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, serving as artistic muse and collaborator for one another.
		The technical comments are few and far between, and generally superficial (we learn, for example, that Mapplethorpe began to photograph flower arrangements so that he could practice studio lighting techniques before using them on human subjects).
	desires.com /1.6/Word/Reviews/Docs/mapple.html (344 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe - a photoset on Flickr
		I would be introduced to Robert Mapplethorpe, late one night in the spring of 1984, by Robert Cromwell when the three of us were standing outside of The Spike.
		Cromwell had been trying to connect Mapplethorpe and I together for several weeks and on this particular night he'd arrange for us to meet outside of the Spike before Cromwell and I were to head to the Garage.
		Since Mapplethorpe was not in the dance scene we exchange numbers and agreed to touch base with each in a couple of days.
	www.flickr.com /photos/perspective/sets/382383 (576 words)

	Pride 2000
		Robert Mapplethorpe's delicately composed photographs of flowers decorate living room walls throughout the world.
		A master craftsman who wove Catholic symbolism into starkly arranged portraits, Mapplethorpe was hailed as a genius throughout the art world.
		In a protest/street party, Mapplethorpe images were projected on the outside walls of the Corcoran.
	www.planetout.com /specials/pride/features/mapplethorpe.html (330 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe Online
		Original works by Robert Mapplethorpe available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
		Robert Mapplethorpe in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		All images and text on this Robert Mapplethorpe page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/mapplethorpe_robert.html (349 words)

	Fine Photography Books and Prints-Robert Mapplethorpe
		Robert Mapplethorpe never concealed his interest in and passion for the human figure in all its sensuous manifestations.
		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.
		The classical ideal was not only a poetic inspiration but also an ethical model and, in his creative quest, Mapplethorpe described photography as "the perfect way to make a sculpture." The potency of love and Eros, which electrifies many of the Mannerist works shown here, is articulated again in the work of Mapplethorpe.
	www.finephotobooks.com /New/new_Mapplethorpe.htm (435 words)

	Sean Kelly Gallery \| Exhibition Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The exhibition, Mapplethorpe’s first solo show in New York in three years, inaugurates the gallery’s relationship with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
		Mapplethorpe’s photographs exemplify classical ideals of form and proportion reminiscent of the work of Edward Weston, with their controlled relationships between light and shadow, balance and asymmetry, beauty and obscenity, whilst at the same time clearly presaging a more contemporary interest with the body and self-obsession.
		Since Mapplethorpe's untimely death in 1989, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in museums throughout the world, including major traveling retrospectives.
	www.skny.com /lasso-bin/exhibition.lasso?-token.ExID=10142 (305 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe
		In the life and work of late artist Robert Mapplethorpe, two defining trends of the 1980s came together: the emerging awareness of the AIDS epidemic and a growing movement to limit funding for "obscene art".
		Mapplethorpe is best known for his homoerotic photographs that captured New York City's gay community in the late 1970s and the self-portraits that unflinchingly traced his physical deterioration from AIDS a decade later.
		Among his self-portraits is one from 1978, which displays a playful Mapplethorpe, clad in cowboy gear, bending over to expose his bare buttocks to the viewer.
	www.heroism.org /class/1980/maplethorpe.htm (527 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Robert Batty, Castle of the Hardenberg near Gˆttingen, plate 25 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
		Robert Batty, Chateau of the Prince of Waldeck, plate 24 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
		Robert Batty, Palace of the Christiansborg, Copenhagen, plate 38 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
	wwar.com /masters/m/mapplethorpe-robert.html (2011 words)

	ArtForum: Smile and say "jeans!" - use of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe to advertise Helmut Lang jeans
		I have been trying to remember what kind of jeans Robert Mapplethorpe wore and if they were really tight and tidy or kind of droopy and in need of a wash. Easy to picture him in fl leather pants or chaps, harder to remember him in blue jeans.
		Roland Barthes was fond of Mapplethorpe's 1976 portrait of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in which they both wear jeans, Glass' pair comfortably faded, Wilson's darker and newer.
		The Mapplethorpe photos are juxtaposed with new shots by Bruce Weber, portraits of Owen for Lang's pret-a-porter and model Rainer P. for the jeans line (for its debut Lang mixed all the "registers" up).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n9_v35/ai_19587063 (669 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert Mapplethorpe composed a series of self portraits, this one with devil's horns protruding from his head.
		Mapplethorpe's self portraits chronicle his life, from the heady days of the 70s through his physical demise in the late 80s.
		And to many within the Christian Coalition in the States, Robert Mapplethorpe was the devil himself.
	www.iol.ie /~webfoto/maple1.htm (94 words)

	Lynda Schorr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She called Robert her "skinny willy." Both father and son had extremely poor appetites.
		Mapplethorpe eventually opted to swallow a tab of acid.
		Mapplethorpe worried that he wouldn't be able to contribute.
	www.ohiou.edu /~quarter/submissions/SUBMISSION11.HTML (1117 words)

	Amazon.ca: Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born in 1945, Robert Mapplethorpe studied drawing, painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute--and then quickly evolved into one of his era's foremost photographers, first experimenting with found-photograph collages and Polaroid photography, but soon moving to significantly more sophisticated work in which he experimented with numerous photographic processes.
		In spite of his considerable acclaim and influence in arts circles, Mapplethorpe remained largely unknown to the public at large--until the very eve of his death in 1988, when the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Philadelphia mounted a major overview of his work.
		Robert Mapplethorpe is not, perhaps, an artist whose work you would like to give your fundamentalist Great Aunt Edna--unless, of course, you are hoping to drive her into heart failure and inherit her estate.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0884540464 (751 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe Traveling Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A retrospective show for the late Robert Mapplethorpe including many nudes, some of children, flowers and sadomasochistic activities.
		Officials of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati tried to be prudent:they restricted access to the museum to those over 18 and relegated the most disturbing and explicit of the 175 photographs to a separate further isolated room.
		This was not enough, however to keep a local sheriff from staging a raid on the exhibit and seeking indictments against museum director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges; nor was it enough to keep the grand jury from handing up an indictment.
	simr02.si.ehu.es /FileRoom/documents/Cases/337mapplethorpe.html (163 words)

	Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 1989) (Getty Museum)
		Inspired by Andy Warhol's film Chelsea Girls (1966), Robert Mapplethorpe moved to Manhattan in 1969 to meet the artist and to emulate him—in art, lifestyle, and material success.
		After he settled at the Chelsea Hotel, where segments of Warhol's film were shot, he began making photographs, often self-portraits or portraits of his roommate, the poet Patti Smith, and usually with a borrowed Polaroid camera.
		Warhol was commissioned to paint his portrait, so Mapplethorpe sat for the preparatory Polaroids, including this one.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=133857 (173 words)

	AllRefer.com - Robert Mapplethorpe (Photography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Robert Mapplethorpe[mA´pulthOrp´´] Pronunciation Key, 1946–89, American photographer, b.
		He is known for his fl-and-white studies of male and female nudes, flowers, and celebrity portraits.
		Soon after his death from AIDS, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. canceled a traveling retrospective of his work in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid a debate in Congress over public funding by the National Endowment for the Arts of works deemed "objectionable" by fundamentalist religious groups and political conservatives.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mappleth.html (264 words)

	Amazon.com: Pictures: Robert Mapplethorpe: Books: Robert Mapplethorpe,Ingrid Sischy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mapplethorpe, whose name is now synonymous with controversy, was renowned for his refined aesthetic and his willingness to confront taboos.
		Mapplethorpe captured an extreme moment in time, when controversial sexual behavior came out to the public and shoved itself in the public's face, clamoring to be viewed and defying us to look away.
		this is the book that all mapplethorpe fans have secretly and not-so-secretly been waiting for...his toughest,grittiest and most lovingly made photographs taken in the space of a few years before fame and, in my opinion, decline.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1892041162?v=glance (1355 words)

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