Asking to Be Looked at
Wayne Koestenbaum, 25 January 1996
Mapplethorpe: A Biography
by Patricia Morrisroe.
Macmillan, 461 pp., £20, September 1995,9780333669419 Show More
by Patricia Morrisroe.
Macmillan, 461 pp., £20, September 1995,
Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe
by Arthur Danto.
California, 206 pp., £20, October 1995,0 520 20051 9 Show More
by Arthur Danto.
California, 206 pp., £20, October 1995,
“... tyrannical censorship. No artist – and Mapplethorpe was a fine one – deserves such treatment. Patricia Morrisroe’s biography has the virtue of the emphatic. In no uncertain terms she shows that Mapplethorpe was just a fellow who worked assiduously to take pictures of what obsessed him. The nature of his preoccupations, and the movement of his ... ”
