Flowers

The theme of flowers recurs throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's work, coming to signify some of his deepest concerns as an artist. While his flower images have until now been best known in black-and-white, Flowers reveals his genius in color. 52 full-color illustrations. The theme of flowers recurs throughout Robert Mapplethorpe's work and in this book some of the 50 flower images presented date from the early 1980s, while most were taken in the months before his death in 1989.