The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003
- 339pages
- 12 heures de lecture
The first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic. číst celé
Gregg Bordowitz Livres
Gregg Bordowitz, en tant qu'artiste et militant, aborde principalement les thèmes de l'activisme autour du VIH/SIDA. Son travail examine les représentations médiatiques de l'épidémie, confrontant les réactions sociétales face à la maladie, à la peur et à la mortalité. L'approche de Bordowitz est souvent conflictuelle et sans compromis, privilégiant des représentations authentiques des expériences des personnes vivant avec le SIDA. Ses œuvres, mêlées d'expériences personnelles, appellent à une reconnaissance politique des fardeaux de la maladie et du désespoir.
Glenn Ligon
- 96pages
- 4 heures de lecture
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)-a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.
Some Styles of Masculinity
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Some Styles of Masculinity is an intimate, urgent, and rollicking account of thinking and enduring through upheaval and plague. Prompted by the surge of white nationalism in the United States, Gregg Bordowitz reflects on his experience of assimilation and marginalization as a Yinglish-speaking child of outer-borough Jews and a queer person who has been living with AIDS since his twenties. He tells his own story by considering three totems of masculinity that were formative to him as he came of age in New York City in the 1970s and '80s: the rock star, the rabbi, and the comedian. These figures taught Bordowitz how to balance reinvention and tradition, and how to be different even as difference is under assault
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
- 104pages
- 4 heures de lecture
One of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Félix González-Torres (1957-96) reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor and evocative use of everyday materials that resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political. Featuring several key bodies of work from throughout the artist's career, this publication showcases a series of distinct installations at David Zwirner in New York in 2017. Together, in their radical openness to interventions of site, audience and context, the works on view challenge perceived notions of what constitutes an exhibition space, a public, an artwork itself. Despite the resolute abstraction of much of his work, Gonzalez-Torres worked with familiar materials, from his iconic candy spill works to his evocative light string pieces, to mirrors, clocks and curtains. His work activates the architecture of the various spaces, the physicality of the viewer, the past and present, continuously maintaining its relevance. Opening with details of the exhibition and images of visitors in the spaces, the publication walks the reader through each piece