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Wagstaff, Before and After Mapplethorpe : A Biography / Philip Gefter.
Fine Arts Library N406.W34 G44 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gefter, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987.
- Wagstaff, Samuel J.
- Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987--Friends and associates.
- Friends and associates.
- Art museum curators--United States--Biography.
- Art museum curators.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--United States--Biography.
- Art.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 458 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2015]
- Summary:
- Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography in which Wagstaff's largely overlooked influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century, is portrayed.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Provenance
- 1 Dragged Mass Displacement 3
- 2 The Crossing 24
- 3 Be Here Now 49
- 4 Jardin Des Nabi 80
- Part 2 Apollo and Dionysus In Manhattan
- 5 Kama Sutra, Baby 105
- 6 From Minimalism to Mapplethorpe 120
- 7 Transformation 138
- 8 Circles of Influence 147
- 9 Luxe, Calme, Et Volupte 169
- Part 3 The Fine Art of Longing
- 10 The Inamorato 197
- 11 Let the Games Begin 219
- 12 Applause 248
- 13 Back to Pompeii 266
- 14 The Arriviste 287
- Part 4 Nocturne
- 15 The Pictures Generation 311
- 16 Whispers of the Muse 327
- 17 The Glimmer and the Gloom 339
- 18 Gardenias, Fragrant, Floating 363.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871404374
- 0871404370
- OCLC:
- 885092736
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