Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe

This volume recounts the unprecedented conversation presented by the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester between the works of 20th-century Italian painter Filippo de Pisis (1896-1956) and one of the most influential American art photographers of his generation, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). The two artists never met in real life, yet their work reveals astonishing similarities.

This publication reveals these correspondences for the first time, offering the public an opportunity to discover the work of one of the most prolific Italian artists of the 20th century and to consider lesser-known photographs by Mapplethorpe by revisiting his work in a new perspective.