ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: A CRÃTICA DOS DISCURSOS SUBALTERNOS

Abstract

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 – 1989),contemporaneous artist influent on Conceptual and Pop Art,is known by representations of famous friends, for his stilllifepainting and representations of body in homoerotic,interethnic and sadomazoquist relations. Your irony is usedas a critical tool and while conceptual. To work with thework of Mapplethorpe we seek contributions of CulturalStudies in dialogue with anthropological approach; with thepost-structuralism philosophy of Michael Foucault, theQueer Theory and post-colonial studies .We take ashypothesis that Mapplethorpe’s works exposes by the artisticlanguage and Conceptual art the possible uses ofphotography as informative tools and representatives ofknowledge and social critic. This is a qualitative research,with the content analysis on interpretation of image, whichis based in shape and content, being these taken as a speech,in the meaning that Michal Foucault gives to the term.

Index Terms - Contemporary Art, Pós-colonial Studies,Queer Theory, Robert Mapplethorpe.