{"product_id":"robert-mapplethorpe-fotografie-idea-books-milan-1983","title":"Robert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie, Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Mapplethorpe — Fotografie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1983\u003cbr\u003eInterview by Germano Celant\u003cbr\u003eItalian-language edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith retained period newspaper and magazine clippings.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdea 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book enters as monograph.\u003cbr\u003eThe clippings enter as record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImage, interview, publisher, sticker, review, obituary, legal anxiety, television listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA monograph displaced into dossier form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMapplethorpe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook and afterlife, retained together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Dispatched protected and tracked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53318910116178,"sku":"RM-FOT-IDEA-1983","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Mapplethorpe_-Robert.-Fotografie-1983-back-cover_3c793ee3-8781-4c4a-a7d5-ca5406e113c4.jpg?v=1777535435","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/robert-mapplethorpe-fotografie-idea-books-milan-1983","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}