• Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Front cover. Black ground, title in spaced white capitals: 'Robert Mapplethorpe fotografie'. Centre: black-and-white photograph of a male torso in a white swimsuit, cropped at shoulders and thighs, high-contrast studio lighting. Lower text: 'Intervista con R. Mapplethorpe a cura di Germano Celant'. ISBN 88-7017-032-2. Original yellow N.P.G. price sticker lower right: 19.95. Photography monograph, Italian edition.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Back cover. Black ground with white border rule. Black-and-white photograph: a young Black woman in profile, nude to the waist, holding a white draped cloth across her body, rings on her fingers, eyes downcast. Title in white block capitals along lower edge: 'ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE'. Photography monograph, Italian edition.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, 1983. Retained press clipping: 'Television Selections', Wednesday 16 – Sunday 20. Includes Friday 9.30–10.25 BBC2 Arena feature on Robert Mapplethorpe. Text discusses Mapplethorpe's work, AIDS, and his public profile. Annotated television listings page
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, 1983. Retained press clipping: 'Preview: Art — New reviews by Sarah Kent'. Includes review of Robert Mapplethorpe at Hamiltons Gallery, New York. Large black-and-white close-up portrait of a bald man in profile against a dark background — Mapplethorpe photograph. Extended critical text discussing Mapplethorpe's portraiture, classical form, homoerotic content, and reception in England and America.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, 1983. Retained press clipping: 'A question of obscenity' by W.J. Weatherby, Guardian, 8 October 1990. Report on US courtroom battles over Mapplethorpe's work and obscenity charges in Cincinnati and Fort Lauderdale. Annotated in ink: 'Guardian 8 X 1990'. Censorship, NEA, obscenity.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, 1983. Retained press clipping: 'Bottom Line' by Richard Guilliatt. Report on the touring exhibition of Mapplethorpe's sexually explicit photographs and anti-porn protest in Cincinnati. Left: black-and-white photograph of two women in lingerie and heels in an erotic pose, captioned 'Lesbian erotica by Della (Die)Grace: runs into retail rather than legal problems.' Extended text on censorship, the National Coalition Against Pornography, the Cincinnati prosecution, and the NEA
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, 1983. Retained press clipping: 'Hanging judges' by Roy Shaw, Weekend section. On Robert Mapplethorpe exhibitions in America and the Senate's role in public arts funding. Left inset: black-and-white photograph of Mapplethorpe seated before a large pentagram. Right: large black-and-white photograph of a nude male figure in a classical pose against a dark circular ground. Censorship, NEA, public funding controversy.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Interior plate: Sarabelle Miller, 1981. Black-and-white photograph of a young girl with long hair in a striped dress and black shoes, standing at a grand piano, pressing the keys, head bowed. Sheet music open on the stand. Caption lower right: 'Sarabelle Miller 19[81]'. Photography monograph, Germano Celant.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Interior plate: black-and-white studio photograph. A figure with short dark hair, bare-shouldered, wearing black dungarees and a wide leather belt, both hands raised to cover their face, painted fingernails visible, small earring. Neutral grey ground. High-contrast Mapplethorpe studio lighting. Photography monograph, Germano Celant, The New Rare.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Interior plate: black-and-white studio portrait. A woman with dark hair swept back and wet, bare-shouldered, hand raised to chin, direct gaze toward camera. Strong contrast against a black ground. Classical Mapplethorpe portraiture. Photography monograph, Germano Celant, The New Rare.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Interior plate: black-and-white studio photograph. A Black man, bare-chested and muscular, wearing white trousers pushed down at the back, standing in three-quarter profile, looking back over his shoulder toward the camera, smiling. Dark wall and wooden floor visible. Classical Mapplethorpe figure study. Photography monograph, Germano Celant, The New Rare.
  • Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983. Interior spread: interview page with Germano Celant. Left: black-and-white plate, Lisa Lyon, 1983 — woman in leopard-print bodysuit and high heels, one leg raised, shielding her eyes with one hand, dynamic pose against a white ground. Right: Italian-language interview text, Celant and Mapplethorpe in dialogue on sadomasochism, sexuality, and photography as personal experience. Photography monograph, The New Rare.
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Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983

Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983

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Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie
Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983
Interview by Germano Celant
Italian-language edition

Softcover, black-and-white illustrations
Condition: Good used copy. Rubbing and shelf wear to covers, edge and corner wear, light creasing, surface marks, and general handling. Original yellow N.P.G. price sticker to rear cover. Interior appears clean. Clippings show folds, toning, creasing, and newspaper fragility consistent with retained press material.

With retained period newspaper and magazine clippings.

Idea Books publication on Robert Mapplethorpe, issued in Milan in 1983 with an interview by Germano Celant. Portraits, bodies, flowers, studio arrangements. The classical pose and the charged image held inside a compact Italian publication.

This copy includes a group of retained newspaper and magazine clippings relating to Mapplethorpe’s public reception after publication: reviews, censorship coverage, obituary material, television listings, and articles around obscenity, public funding, and institutional display. One clipping is annotated “Guardian 8 X 1990.”

The book enters as monograph.
The clippings enter as record.

Image, interview, publisher, sticker, review, obituary, legal anxiety, television listing.

A monograph displaced into dossier form.

Mapplethorpe is held here by two paper systems: the Italian art book and the English-language press file. One fixes the work in 1983. The other records its later movement through publicity, controversy, and reception.

Book and afterlife, retained together.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Dispatched protected and tracked.

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