Author: Steven Epstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520214455
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies.
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.
Author: Peter Piot
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538774
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public health policies in nations across the globe. As he struggled to get ahead of the disease, Piot found science does little good when it operates independently of politics and economics, and politics is worthless if it rejects scientific evidence and respect for human rights. Piot describes how the epidemic altered global attitudes toward sexuality, the character of the doctor-patient relationship, the influence of civil society in international relations, and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. The global reaction to AIDS over the past decade is the positive result of this partnership, showing what can be achieved when science, politics, and policy converge on the ground. Yet it remains a fragile achievement, and Piot warns against complacency and the consequences of reduced investments. He refuses to accept a world in which high levels of HIV infection are the norm. Instead, he explains how to continue to reduce the incidence of the disease to minute levels through both prevention and treatment, until a vaccine is discovered.
Author: Tommaso Speretta
Publisher: Asamer
ISBN: 9789490693237
Category : AIDS (Disease) and the arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book tracks a movement that has as yet not been historicized in Europe on the subject of AIDS activism by various artistic collectives in New York in the 1980s. The approach is historic, yet activist-based, and combines a look at graphic design, with social, political, art historical, and curatorial reflections. 'Rebel Rebels' analyzes some of the activist art experiences born in New York between 1979 and 1989 (this is where the subtitle 'Art and Activism. New York 1979-1989' comes from), when in response to a conservative political and cultural climate artists began to work in groups and to realize projects concretely addressed to the problems of society. The book is conceived as a tribute to all those activist art collectives born in New York City at the beginning of the 80's (such as ACT UP, Gran Fury, Group Material), united by a common refusal of traditional aesthetic criteria, the synthesis of artistic strategies and commercial advertising for political propagandistic ends, and by a willingness to take direct action to end the AIDS crisis.
Author: Robert Atkins
Publisher: Independent Curators International
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Douglas Crimp
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262031400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Essays discuss how AIDS is being portrayed in the media, and analyze public attitudes towards homosexuals
Author: Avram Finkelstein
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520351339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words “Silence = Death.” The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often used—and misused—to brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and other protest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.
Author: Charles Arthur Mercier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Author: Donald Albrecht
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939125781
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries' Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation. The collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was donated to the University of Rochester by Dr. Edward Atwater. The book accompanies an exhibition of AIDS education posters displayed at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.The posters, spanning the years from 1982 to the present, show how social, religious, civic, and public health agencies have addressed the controversial, often contested terrain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic within the public realm. Organizations and creators tailored their messages to audiences, both broad and very specific, and used a wide array of strategies, employing humor, emotion, scare tactics, simple scientific explanations, sexual imagery, and many other methods to communicate powerfully and effectively.
Author: Gregg Bordowitz
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262025706
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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"The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. 'So total was the burden of illness - mine and other - 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 Biodowirtz, a film - and videomaker whose most well-known works, 'Fast trip', 'Long drop' (1993) and 'Habit' (2001), address AIDS globally and personalily. 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-writer 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 palpable sense of fear' created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal 'Documents', 'New York was yeasterday'. 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 underlaying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns." - back cover.
