Mapplethorpe Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur C. Danto Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur C. Danto 1992, Random House. NY 1st Edition Photographs Within this large and heavy folio size book  Arthur Danto's opening essay introduces us  to this controversial artist.  While addressing the most public dimensions of Mapplethorpe's career—the branding of his work as pornography and the legal and censorship issues that surround the exhibition of his photographs— Danto offers a sympathetic account of Mapplethorpe's aesthetics. He accepts the sexual content of Mapplethorpe's images, claiming that the content and the artistic character of the photographs simultaneously invite and deflect the charges of pornography and together define the importance of Mapplethorpe's work. Danto discerns the images' uniqueness in the relation of trust between the photographer and his subjects.

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