Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | ISBN:1596915331 | File Type: PDF, 624 pages | File size: 47.Mb | Jul. 17th, 2012
Artists Architects Photographers Biographies Autobiographies: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz In December 2010 the National ortrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it responded to protests from the Catholic League by voluntarily censoring an excerpt of David Wojnarowicz s A Fire in My Belly from its show on American portraiture Why a work of art cod stir such emotions is at the heart of Cynthia Carr s Fire in the Belly the first biography of a beleaguered art world figure who became one of the most important voices of his generation Wojnarowicz emerged from a Dickensian childhood that included orphanages abusive and absent parents and a life of hustling on the street He first found acclaim in New York s East Village a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and 80s for its abandoned buildings junkies and burgeoning art scene Along with Keith Haring Nan Goldin and Jean Michel Basquiat Wojnarowicz helped redefine art for the times As uptown art collectors looked downtown for the next big thing this community of ctural outsiders was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight The ensuing cture war the neighborhood s gentrification and the AIDS crisis then devastated the East Village scene Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of thirty seven Carr s brilliant biography traces the untold story of a controversial and seminal figure at a pivotal moment in American cture
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