Fever

the art of David Wojnarowicz

By Wojnarowicz, David & Cameron, Dan & Scholder, Amy

Publishers Summary:
A central figure in New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, Wojnarowicz was a painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, installation artist, musician, and video- and filmmaker. After being diagnosed as HIV-positive in the late 1980s, Wojnarowicz engaged in widely publicized debates over medical research and funding, censorship in the arts, and politically-sanctioned homophobia, lending his art a sharply political edge. The last few years of his life were an intense flurry of activity in a variety of mediums, fueled by rage and alienation that helped set the tone for contemporary art's exploration of social and private identities.

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ISBN
978-0-84782-144-0
Publisher
New York : Rizzoli, 1998.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on March 1, 1999

A painter, photographer, writer, and activist, Wojnarowicz currently is being commemorated with a large-scale retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the first since his death from AIDS at the age of 37 in 1992. The catalog to that show presents more than 70 pieces, from simple early photographs of himself posing in a Rimbaud mask to his most successful multimedia collages. Wojnarowicz was a leading light among political East Village artists of the 1980s. Yet, surprisingly, the satire and social critique in much of his work has managed to evolve--like that of Otto Dix--taking on broader meaning rather than a dated look....Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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