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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe

By Philip Gefter

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Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe

By Philip Gefter

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Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from society "bachelor" of the 1940s to his emergence as rebellious curator. In 1972, his meeting with twenty-five-year-old Mapplethorpe, would lead to his legacy as world-class photography collector and cultural arbiter. Positioning Wagstaff's personal life against the rise of photography as a major art form and the simultaneous formation of the gay rights movement, Gefter's absorbing biography provides a searing portrait of New York just before and during the age of AIDS. The result is a definitive and memorable portrait of a man and an era.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
480
Release Date:
2015-02-06
Publication Date:
2014-11-03
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0871404370
ISBN13:
9780871404374
Weight:
880 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
246 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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