Robert Mapplethorpe's reputation was based on a body of black and white prints, including portraits and sexual imagery. From the start of his career he was working with colour, making collages and then polaroids and colour photographs, few of which have been seen. "Altars" presents this colour work, together with his final work which consisted of unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. This is a companion volume to "Mapplethorpe".
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Robert Mapplethorpe's reputation was based on a body of black and white prints, including portraits and sexual imagery. From the start of his career he was working with colour, making collages and then polaroids and colour photographs, few of which have been seen. "Altars" presents this colour work, together with his final work which consisted of unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. This is a companion volume to "Mapplethorpe".
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Slip-Case. Large 4to. pp 139. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered red at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Mapplethorpe's reputation is based on his monochrome prints, but he did work with colour, making collages, polaroids and colour photographs. "Altars" presents this colour work, together with his final, unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. This book is heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. ISBN: 0224037811 Fine in slip-case. Excellent condition.
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Like New. Size: 192x20x208; First Edition Hardcover with fine dust jacket and slipcase. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0224037811. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Large book with d/j in box. Bit of soiling on one panel of box. Light bruising to lower front tip. Heavy/oversize item-additional shipping charges may be required depending on speed/destination requested.; 12.8346456562 X 11.889763; 160 pages.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 11 1/2" x 12 1/4" 160pp. Black cloth, blind stamped, red lettering on the spine. Color, black and white photographs throughout the book. As new. Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright, except for a 1 1/2" chip on the rear inner flap. Housed in a black slipcase which has a light scuff on lower edge of the rear panel. Robert Mapplethorpe's reputation was based on a body of black and white prints, including portraits and sexual imagery. From the start of his career he was working with colour, making collages and then polaroids and colour photographs, few of which have been seen. ALTARS presents this colour work together with his final work, which were unique prints, elaborately framed and mounted on multiple coloured panels. The final work was the culmination of his creation of the unique photographic object, and it places Mapplethorpe outside the realm of photography and firmly in the world of contemporary art.
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NF book, NF dust jacket, VG+ slipcase. Black cloth boards, black DJ with color illus., matching slipcase. 139 pp., plates throughout, in black and white and color. Includes an essay by Edmund White. "Altars is the full-color companion volume to the definitive collection of his black-and-white prints, Mapplethorpe, published in 1992. Beginning with his early collages, Polaroids, and unpublished color prints, Altars follows Mapplethorpe's preoccupation with color and geometry through a wide range of subject matter, from intimate portraits of Patti Smith to sado-masochistic rituals. The book ends with the multiple-colored panels of his late, unique photographic pieces, elaboratly framed."--Jacket.
