Winter 2011: Fleurs du mal
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 06:05 Written by External Post Wednesday, 16 November 2011 06:05
Robert Mapplethorpe’s Calla Lily, 1986
Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs of flowers are exquisite, says Francis Hodgson, but it’s the heady scent of danger that makes them more than studies of nature
Robert Mapplethorpe is well known as the bad boy of the New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s, famous mainly for his studies of male nudes, his celebrity portraits and a long-time collaboration with the singer and poet Patti…
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