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Author: Robert Atkins
Publisher: Independent Curators International
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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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.

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: Jack Lowery
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 9781645036609
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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.

Author: Niki de Saint-Phalle
Publisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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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: 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.

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

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.

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.