Example sentences for: mapplethorpe

How can you use “mapplethorpe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If all arts funding were private (as 99 percent of it already is), for instance, we wouldn't have members of Congress debating Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs or the film The Watermelon Woman .

  • His only serious rival is Irving Penn, and his epigones (whether they admit it or not) include everyone from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Leibovitz.

  • The institute took flak in Congress for the S&M images in its Robert Mapplethorpe show, and for displaying Andres Serrano's crucifix suspended in urine.

  • But after attempts to eliminate them began under President Reagan, and intensified with the Mapplethorpe fiasco, Yates' career became preoccupied with keeping them alive.

  • People (for the most part) didn't find Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio photographs objectionable because they depicted homosexuality.


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