Patti Smith 1976
Tate
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Key Words
Neo-classicism • Nude • Innocence • Artists • Sexuality • Love • Death • Body • Pleasure • Black & White • Childhood • Taste • Desire • Sex • Youth • Celebrity • Popular Culture • Music • Erotic • Portraiture • Sculpture • Lines • Light • Beauty • Perfection • Athletic • Unity • Balance • Censorship
Sitters and Subjects
Self • Friends • Bodies • Lovers • Artists • Writers • Actors • Bodybuilders • Models • Dancers • Children • Statues • Flowers • Subcultures
Process
Sculpture • Photography
Links to other artists in National collections at National Galleries of Scotland and Tate:
Andy Warhol, Julia Margaret Cameron, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalì, Auguste Rodin, Man Ray, Antonio Canova
Links to Art Movements:
Neo-classicism, Renaissance, mannerism, rococo, baroque, surrealism, dadaism, postmodernism
Websites
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
ARTIST ROOMS: National Galleries of Scotland and Tate
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour with the Art Fund
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Further Reading
Robert Mapplethorpe, Perfection in Form, London, 2009.
Sylvia Woolf, Polaroids, Munich and New York, 2007.
Arthur C. Danto, Robert Mapplethorpe, London, 2007.
Keith Hartley, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edinburgh, 2006.
Germano Celant, Mapplethorpe, Italy, 1992.
Richard Marshall, Mapplethorpe’s Vision, New York, 1990.
Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Flowers, Boston, 1990.
Robert Mapplethorpe and Joan Didion, Some Women, Boston 1989.
Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, Philadelphia, 1988.
Richard Marshall and Robert Mapplethorpe, 50 New York Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working In New York, San Francisco, 1986.
Robert Mapplethorpe and Ntozake Shange, Black Book, New York, 1986.
Robert Mapplethorpe and Susan Sontag, Certain People: A Book of Portraits, Pasadena, 1985.
Robert Mapplethorpe and Bruce Chatwin, Lady, Lisa Lyon, New York, 1983.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe: 1970-1983, London, 1983.