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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Nonfiction Books | | | Publisher: | Grove Pr | | Category: | Biography & Memoir | | | ISBN-10: | 0802116329 | | | | | | ISBN-13: | 9780802116321 | | | | | | Format: | Hardcover | | Condition: | Acceptable | | | Publication Year: | 1998 | | | | | | Special Attributes: | -- | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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1st edition hardback with jacket, very nice condition, tight binding, unmarked text. |
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| Synopsis | A sampling of the journal entries written and collected by David Wojnarowicz from the age of 17 until the summer before his death from AIDS in 1992. The painter, photographer, and writer tells of his beginnings as an artist, his sexual discoveries, travels through Europe, and life as a homosexual in New York City in the last three decades of the 20th century. With b&w illustrations.
| | Details | | Editor: | Amy Scholder |
| | Size | | Length: | 267 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in. | | Width: | 5.8 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 15.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Few artists in the late twentieth century have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of urban life like David Wojnarowicz. IN THE SHADOW OF THE AMERICAN DREAM chronicles Wojnarowicz's life from age seventeen until his AIDS related death at thirty seven, and draws on his experiences at the margins of American society. After his HIV diagnosis Wojnarowicz engaged in highly public debates about health care, homophobia, and censorship, creating deeply political art even as he became a target for the right wing.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE AMERICAN DREAM tells the story of Wojnarowicz's emergence as an artist and writer: from publishing his first photographs the Arthur Rimbaud in New York series and writing monologues based on the world of outsiders he encountered; to touring Europe as a renowned painter and publishing his tour de force, CLOSE TO THE KNIVES. IN THE SHADOW OF THE AMERICAN DREAM offers an intimate glimpse of the New York art scene in the 1980s, and is finally a record of the private Wojnarowicz, falling in love for the first time, exploring erotic possibilities on the Hudson River piers, becoming overwhelmed by the demands of survival, and searching for the pleasure and freedom he believed one could live on.
| | Industry reviews | "He could leave toothmarks on the memory....Many who have encountered him on the page or on the wall can still admire the raw passion, intelligence, and transforming energy with which he met his fate."
Lind
"If Mapplethorpe was the classicist of the gay subculture, Wojnarowicz is its Rimbaud figure, its emissary from the lower depths of fixated desire....He is a naturally incensed writer, in the William Burroughs mode, living so far over the edge that his words fly free."
Lind
"Lush and breathtaking, spinning out an evocative, tactile blur...even to the end, depressed and struggling for meaning, the artist's phrasings are of exquisite beauty."
San Francisco Bay Guardian (03/01/2000)
"[Wojnarowicz's] diaries--like his art--still crackle with a genuine originality that will be felt across whatever trenches of [the culture wars] remain today."
Washington Post (03/01/2000)
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