Entrée principale:

Gefter, Philip, author.

Titre et auteur:

Wagstaff, before and after Mapplethorpe : a biography / Philip Gefter.

Édition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2015]

Description:

xvii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
TXA
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dragged mass displacement -- The crossing -- Be here now -- Jardin des nabi -- Kama sutra, baby -- From minimalism to Mapplethorpe -- Transformation -- Circles of influence -- Luxe, calme, et volupte -- The inamorato -- Let the games begin -- Applause -- Back to Pompeii -- The arriviste -- The pictures generation -- Whispers of the muse -- The glimmer and the gloom -- Gardenias, fragrant, floating.

Résumé:

Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography in which Wagstaff's largely overlooked influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century, is portrayed.

ISBN:

9780871404374 (hardcover)
0871404370 (hardcover)
9781631490958
1631490958

Sujet:

Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987.
Wagstaff, Samuel J., Jr., 1921-1987 Friends and associates.
Mapplethorpe, Robert Friends and associates Biography.
Mapplethorpe, Robert
Art museum curators United States Biography.
Art Collectors and collecting United States.
Conservateurs de musée d'art États-Unis Biographies.
Art Collectionneurs et collections États-Unis.
Art Collectors and collecting
Art museum curators
Friendship
United States

Classification/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 288602
Cote: BIB 230362
Statut: Disponible