List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapplethorpe, Art History, and the Problem of Difference
1. A Promiscuous Eye: On Race and the Flower
2. The Limits of Control
3. Mapplethorpe’s Exotic Bloom: Upending the Bourgeois Obsession with Ideals
4. Sex, Death, and Transcendence: The Incendiary Formalism of the Flower
Bibliography
Index