Art about AIDS
Nan Goldin's Exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing
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Erschienen am 21. November 2016
352 Seiten
978-3-11-045307-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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Englisch
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Berlin/Boston
Deutschland
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Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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55 b/w and 50 col. ill.
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27,72 MB
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978-3-11-045307-2 (9783110453072)
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http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110453072
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Sophie Junge, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich.
Inhalt
- Intro
- ROOM 1. WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING
- ROOM 2. WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING
- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION ART about AIDS
- The Meaning of Art During the AIDS Epidemic
- Questions and Aims
- Art about AIDS in Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, 1989
- Was Art about AIDS an American Phenomenon in the 1980s? A Comparison with the Federal Republic of Germany
- Methodology and Theoretical Framework
- State of Research
- Chapter 2. CONCEPT and CONTEXT of WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING
- Nan Goldin as Curator: Promoting the Visibility of her Community
- Goldin's Choice of Artworks: The Network on the Wall
- Nan Goldin's Photographs of Gilles and Gotscho, 1991 to 1993
- Comparison with Three Other Exhibitions about AIDS, 1989 to 1994
- Images & Words: Artists Respond to AIDS, 1989
- The Indomitable Spirit, 1990
- From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, 1992 to 1994
- Visual AIDS' Day Without Art and Witnesses, 1989
- Exhibiting Art about AIDS
- Witnesses in the Context of the Culture Wars
- The Controversy between Artists Space and the NEA, Fall 1989
- Funding Witnesses: Perception of the Confl ict
- The Controversy in the Press
- The Controversy in the Eyes of Artists Space and Goldin's Community
- Understanding and Contextualizing the Art Battles of 1989
- Chapter 3. PHOTOGRAPHIC SELFREPRESENTATION in WITNESSES and in the PRESS
- Depicting Homosexuality in the Photographs in Witnesses
- Sexual Exposure of the Male Body: David Armstrong and Mark Morrisroe
- Sexuality and Politics: David Wojnarowicz's Sex Series
- Depicting Homosexuality in American Press Photographs, 1983 to 1989
- "Sexuality as a Positive Force"? Images of Homosexuality in the Context of AIDS
- Photographs of People with AIDS in Witnesses
- The Dissolution of the Body: Philip-Lorca diCorcia and David Armstrong
- David Wojnarowicz's Triptych of Peter Hujar's Dead Body
- Staging his own Mortality: Mark Morrisroe
- People with AIDS in American Press Photographs, 1983 to 1989
- Excursus: Nicholas Nixon's People with AIDS
- "We will not Vanish" - The Representation of People with AIDS
- Appropriate Representation? The Reception of Photographs of People with AIDS
- Personal Experience as a Guarantee of Authenticity
- Gran Fury's Activist Art: "If it works - we use it."
- The Meaning of Art in the Context of AIDS
- Chapter 4. NAN GOLDIN'S COMMUNITY between MARGINALIZATION and DISSOCIATION
- The East Village Art Scene
- Goldin's Community as an Artistic Bohème?
- The Art Community as People with AIDS
- The Exclusivity of Goldin's Community
- The Social Structure of the AIDS Movement
- ACT UP as Elitist Mouthpiece of the AIDS Movement
- SUMMARY and FUTURE PROSPECTS
- APPENDIX
- References
- Primary Sources
- Literature
- Exhibition Plan Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing
- Interviews and Correspondence
- Interviews in Contemporary Art History
- Transcript 1: Interview with Ross Bleckner, 2011
- Transcript 2: Interview with Dan Cameron, 2011
- Transcript 3: Interview with David Deitcher, 2011
- Transcript 4: Interview with Marvin Heiferman, 2011
- Transcript 5: Interview with Kiki Smith, 2011
- Transcript 6: Interview with Thomas W. Sokolowski, 2011
- Email Correspondence with Susan Wyatt, 2012
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
