Word: erotomania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mapplethorpe's imagery comes trailing a long pedigree, from the Yellow Book decadence of Aubrey Beardsley to Edward Weston's peppers, from Cocteau's classical echoes and erotomania to the chiseled male nudes shot by George Platt Lynes in the '30s and '40s. It also indulges a fascination with style and surface that is very much of the present. Mapplethorpe trafficked expertly in the prevailing moods of the '70s and early '80s, the appetite for both glamour and decadence, high fashion and subterranean sex. That has caused him to be dismissed at times as a vendor of deluxe fantasy...
Thomas Gutheil, of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, says that Hinck ley may be a victim of erotomania in one of its forms: obsession with a celebrity...