"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." -New York Magazine
David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space-all under the specter of AIDS.
Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections-"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral," and "Memories that Smell like Gasoline"-are made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.
The new and revised edition features a foreword by Ocean Vuong and a note from the editor, Amy Scholder.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Nightboat Books is an extremely important publisher, and it crowdfunded the publication of this book by artist Wojnarowicz, who died in 1992. I can't get enough of his work . . . I'm so glad that independent publishers are here to make sure Wojnarowicz's work, which feels like it could've been written yesterday, is never forgotten."
-Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times
"Some of his most searing and explosive work-sketches, essays and livewire prose poems resulting from an embodied sense of longing and anger."
-Interview Magazine
"The writing is hypnotic, colloquial, and often surprising-the first story, for instance, ends with the obliterative brightness of a policeman's flashlight, the prose dissolving into short line segments, too."
-Lisa Yin Zhang, Hyperallergic
"Instead of giving in to political exhaustion, Wojnarowicz fanned his rage and channeled it into a message of-not hope, exactly, but insistence. I am here."
-Christine Smallwood, New York Times
"Raw and visceral."
-Booklist
"Wojnarowicz's already impressive shadow seems to have grown longer over the past few years . . . It's moving, if maddening, that we keep uncovering new gifts from a visionary whose life was cut short by a callow administration."
-Brittany Allen, Literary Hub
"Across his art and writings, Wojnarowicz touches a world he knows will break, a world he hopes to memorialize in words and images, to break and be broken with others . . [Memories] should be in every travel bag this summer-Wojnarowicz forever and ever."
-Alina Stefanescu, On the Seawall
"Sick, like voiceover for dark version of My Own Private Idaho."-Charlie Fox
"He writes of his experiences of the unification of sex, violence, and pleasure in unflinching candidness . . . truthful and courageous."-Trey Burnette, Kelp Journal
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
color and black & white watercolors
Maße
Höhe: 199 mm
Breite: 84 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-64362-271-2 (9781643622712)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
David 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."
