Loss Within Loss

Loss Within Loss PDF Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299170745
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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A moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Published in association with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, the 23 essays stand as a powerful reminder and survey of the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic on the arts community. The book also contains biographies of the subjects and the authors, as well as many bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Loss Within Loss

Loss Within Loss PDF Author: Edmund White
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299170745
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Book Description
A moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Published in association with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, the 23 essays stand as a powerful reminder and survey of the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic on the arts community. The book also contains biographies of the subjects and the authors, as well as many bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

AIDS Artists and Authors

AIDS Artists and Authors PDF Author: Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease) in art
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Life Sentences

Life Sentences PDF Author: Thomas Avena
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781562790516
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Writers and artists discuss AIDs and the effects of the disease on their creative work and emotional wellbeing

United by AIDS

United by AIDS PDF Author: Raphael Gygax
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN: 9783858818393
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the 1980s and its rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in society which have led to a variety of reactions and a new commitment on the part of artists and activists worldwide. United by AIDS, published in conjunction with an extensive group show on the topic of loss, remembrance, activism, and art in response to HIV/AIDS at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, sheds light on the multifaceted and complex interrelation between art, activism, and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present"--Page 4 of cover.

Art AIDS America Chicago

Art AIDS America Chicago PDF Author: Christopher Audain
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780999652251
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Art AIDS America, presented at Alphawood Gallery in Chicago from December 1, 2016, through April 2, 2017"--Colophon.

DUETS: Frederick Weston and Samuel R. Delany in Conversation

DUETS: Frederick Weston and Samuel R. Delany in Conversation PDF Author: Frederick Weston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732641532
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Frederick Weston and Samuel R. Delany come together for a wide-ranging dialogue, reflecting on their overlapping histories in Times Square, the deep impact of AIDS on their creative practices, and the ever-changing intersections of race, sex, language, and art.With additional contributions by Bruce Benderson, Svetlana Kitto, and Tavia Nyong'o.

Don't Leave Me this Way

Don't Leave Me this Way PDF Author: National Gallery of Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This is a selection of essays published in collaboration with the National AIDS Campaign, and in association with the largest exhibition on the subject of HIV/AIDS to be staged in Australia. Contributors include William Yang, Dennis Altman, Lynn Sloan, Richard Coles, Carole S Vance, Jan Zita Grover and others.

The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003

The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 PDF Author: Gregg Bordowitz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262524597
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic. The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. "So total was the burden of illness—mine and others'—that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens," writes Gregg Bordowitz, a film- and video-maker whose best-known works, Fast Trip Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), address AIDS globally and personally. In The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous—the title essay is inspired by Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theater Company—Bordowitz follows in the tradition of artist-writers Robert Smithson and Yvonne Rainer by making writing an integral part of an artistic practice. Bordowitz has left his earliest writings for the most part unchanged—to preserve, he says, "both the youthful exuberance and the palpable sense of fear" created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental, sometimes mixing fiction and fact; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal Documents, "New York Was Yesterday." Finally, in his newest essays he reformulates early themes, and, in "My Postmodernism" (written for Artforum's fortieth anniversary issue) and "More Operative Assumptions" (written especially for this book), he reexamines the underlying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns. In his mature work, Bordowitz seeks to join the subjective—the experience of having a disease—and the objective—the fact of the disease as a global problem. He believes that this conjunction is necessary for understanding and fighting the crisis. "If it can be written," he says, "then it can be realized."

Art about AIDS

Art about AIDS PDF Author: Sophie Junge
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110451522
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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In addition to being a medical, political, and social crisis, the AIDS epidemic in the United States also led to a crisis of artistic representation. This book reveals the important political and moral role of American photographers in the social discourse on AIDS based on the 1989 New York exhibition, “Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing” curated by photographer Nan Goldin.

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful PDF Author: Jack Lowery
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 9781645036609
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize The story of art collective Gran Fury--which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.