Author: GEFTER, PHILIP
Title: Wagstaff, before and after Mapplethorpe : a biography / Philip Gefter
Description: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xvii. 458 pages. 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Summary; 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. Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe. Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from society 'bachelor' of the 1940s to his emergence as rebellious curator. In 1972. his meeting with twenty-five-year-old Mapplethorpe. would lead to his legacy as world-class photography collector and cultural arbiter. Positioning Wagstaff's personal life against the rise of photography as a major art form and the simultaneous formation of the gay rights movement. Gefter's absorbing biography provides a searing portrait of New York just before and during the age of AIDS. The result is a definitive and memorable portrait of a man and an era. Subjects; Wagstaff. Samuel J. Jr. 1921-1987 — Friends and associates. Art museum curators — United States — Biography. Art — Collectors and collecting — United States — Biography. ISBN: 0871404370. Weight in Kg appr.:

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