{"product_id":"robert-mapplethorpe-robert-mapplethorpe-1970-1983-1983","title":"Robert Mapplethorpe — Robert Mapplethorpe 1970–1983 (1983)","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1983\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Preface by Sandy Nairne; essays by Stuart Morgan and Alan Hollinghurst\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition, first printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oversized pictorial softcover (no hardcover issued)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 63 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by Mapplethorpe on the title page (not inscribed).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue of the survey the Institute of Contemporary Arts organised in 1983, which toured to Edinburgh, Bristol, London, Nottingham and Oxford over 1983 and 1984. It covers thirteen years of work: Polaroids and early constructions, flowers, portraits and figure studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays are a reason to own it. Stuart Morgan, among the sharpest British critics of the period, writes alongside Alan Hollinghurst, then at the Times Literary Supplement and five years from publishing The Swimming-Pool Library, a novel that shares these photographs' preoccupation with beauty, class and the classical male body. Sandy Nairne contributes the preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued only in softcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Mapplethorpe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894710567229,"sku":"DI-004","price":1025.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_40caf181-30ff-489d-a75c-b8d1d7975220.jpg?v=1793689126","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/robert-mapplethorpe-robert-mapplethorpe-1970-1983-1983","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}