Muses from chaos and ash : AIDS, artists, and art
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New York : Grove Press, 1993., New York : Grove Press, 1993.
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First edition.
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260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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New York : Grove Press, 1993., New York : Grove Press, 1993.
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Book
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First edition.
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English
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92000588
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AIDS is moving through every corner of the American landscape with frightening speed and force, but its presence is perhaps most deeply felt in the arts community, where it is having a shaping influence on the kind of work being produced. In this searingly powerful, daring, vitally important work from the front lines of the crisis, Andrea Vaucher explores, for the first time, the impact of AIDS on the work of artists who have tested HIV-positive themselves, from their.
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own perspective, in their own words. Through intimate and revealing interviews, men and women from the worlds of literature, film, theater, dance, music, and the visual arts discuss the effects of AIDS on their own artistic evolution and on the creative process. Edmund White, Kenny O'Brien, Peter Adair, Paul Monette, Robert Farber, Arnie Zane, David Wojnarowicz, Bo Huston, Cyril Collard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marlon Riggs, Herve Guibert, Larry Kramer, Tory Dent, Essex.
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Hemphill, Carlos Almaraz, and Keith Haring are some of the artists who have had the generosity and sheer guts to share this most private side of their lives. Here they speak with freshness, vigor, and sometimes painful honesty on such subjects as anger, alienation and isolation, death and loss, activism and politics, freedom, spirituality, symbolism, sexuality, immediacy, and legacy as they relate directly to their work. The life of the artist has always been a kind of.
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hero's journey, which AIDS only intensifies. Many of the artists living with the AIDS virus find themselves possessed of new and extraordinary energy, channeling fear and frustration into a kind of creative fire, finding new means of expression, changing the way they work and the way they perceive the ultimate meaning of that work. This transformation has far-reaching implications for the whole of late-twentieth-century art and beyond. Defiant, insightful, funny, tough,
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and tender, this is a book about courage, perseverance, and transcendence - and essential reading for everyone who cares about what is happening at the cutting edge of the art of our time.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vaucher, A. R. (1993). Muses from chaos and ash: AIDS, artists, and art (First edition.). Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vaucher, Andréa R. 1993. Muses From Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists, and Art. Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vaucher, Andréa R. Muses From Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists, and Art Grove Press, 1993.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vaucher, Andréa R. Muses From Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists, and Art First edition., Grove Press, 1993.
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