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Bezig met laden... Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowiczdoor Cynthia Carr
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. David Wojnarowicz has been one of my favorite artists since I first discovered him in the early 1980's. He is remembered most for his controversial works and the conservative backlash against them. He was a gay man and much of his subject matter considered his sexuality and the AIDS crisis. He was a street kid for a period of time and wrote a comic about that time period that I adore, 7 Miles a Second (I just saw that it's being re-released by Fantagraphics this February). His work is deeply personal and done in many mediums. He was a prolific writer, as well, and published a number of semi-autobiographical works. I admire his body of work, his courage, and the journey of his life. He died of AIDS in 1992 - a sad loss - but his works remain controversial everywhere they are exhibited. Fire in the Belly is a very good, very detailed biography of Mr. Wojnarowicz diligently researched and well-written. A no-holds barred read, this is highly recommended. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity spilled out in paintings, photographs, films, texts, installations, and in his life and its recounting-creating a sort of mythos around himself. His circle of East Village artists moved into the national spotlight just as the AIDS plague began its devastating advance, and as right-wing culture warriors reared their heads. As Wojnarowicz's reputation as an artist grew, so did his reputation as an agitator-because he dealt so openly with his homosexuality, so angrily with his circumstances as a Person With AIDS, and so fiercely with his would-be censors. Fire in the Belly is the untold story of a polarizing figure at a pivotal moment in American culture-and one of the most highly acclaimed biographies of the year. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It is also a memorial. It was painful to read of AIDS related death after AIDS related death but I appreciated the memorializing that took place for each person lost.
Warning, this is a very long book. I put it on my Kindle without checking page count and then realized once engrossed that I was barely 1/4 of the way there. And it seemed impossible to read anything else while in the middle of it.
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