Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
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2025
Nightboat Books (Verlag)
978-1-64362-271-2 (ISBN)
Nightboat Books (Verlag)
978-1-64362-271-2 (ISBN)
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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline is David Wojnarowicz’s memoir of childhood and adolescence amidst the AIDS epidemic, saturated with the air of desperation and the specter of violence.
Wojnarowicz appears here as an abused child, an adolescent prostitute, an adult living with HIV. The book is preoccupied with ruins and ruination; the impulse to make public different lives and desires; the insistence on pleasure, and the implication of politics in pleasure—the themes that contoured Wojnarowicz’s life and work. What comes forth is language as desolate as a world that wanted him dead, and an insistence on life in spite of it.
Wojnarowicz appears here as an abused child, an adolescent prostitute, an adult living with HIV. The book is preoccupied with ruins and ruination; the impulse to make public different lives and desires; the insistence on pleasure, and the implication of politics in pleasure—the themes that contoured Wojnarowicz’s life and work. What comes forth is language as desolate as a world that wanted him dead, and an insistence on life in spite of it.
David Michael Wojnarowicz was an accomplished artist, writer, and activist, born September 14, 1954. He came to prominence in New York in the 1980s, part of a cohort of East Village artists including Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, and Peter Hujar. His work—from the graffiti that first brought him recognition in his teens to the photography and films produced before his AIDS-related death at the age of thirty-seven—center his experience on the margins of American society. His multi-media artworks and political advocacy were the focus of a Whitney retrospective, which named both as signs of his “radical possibility.”
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.7.2025 |
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Zusatzinfo | color and black & white watercolors |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-64362-271-4 / 1643622714 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-64362-271-2 / 9781643622712 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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