Art AIDS America / Jonathan David Katz, Rock Hushka ; Bill Arning, Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed, Glen Helfand, Robb Hernández and Joey Terrill, Theodore Kerr, Amy Sadao, and Nelson Santos, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, David Román, Sarah Schulman, Sur Rodney (Sur).

  • Katz, Jonathan D., 1958-
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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Description

Art AIDS America is the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice. Art AIDS America surveys more than 100 works of American art from the early 1980s to the present, reintroducing and exploring the whole spectrum of artistic responses to HIV/AIDS, from in-your-face activism to quiet elegy.

Publication/Creation

Seattle : Tacoma Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, [2015]

Physical description

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tacoma Art Museum, October 3, 2015-January 10, 2016 ; Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Ga., February 20-May 22, 2016 ; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY: June 23-September 11, 2016.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Director's foreword / Stephanie A. Stebich -- The reflection of the ongoing American HIV/AIDS epidemic and the importance of art to AIDS awareness and voice / Robert J. Gulakowski, Thomas S. Liang, National Institutes of Health -- Foreword / Mayor Lindsey Horvath -- Curator's acknowledgments / Jonathan David Katz, Rock Hushka -- Essays. How AIDS changed American art / Jonathan David Katz ; No (art) business as usual : picking sides in a crisis / Bill Arning ; I'll be your mirror / Teresa Bramlette Reeves ; Love happened here : art, archives, and a living history / Theodore Kerr, Amy Sadao, and Nelson Santos ; Activism, AIDS, art, and the institution / Sur Rodney (Sur) ; Mourning militancy : remembering AIDS activism / Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed ; Art, AIDS, SF : tales of the city / Glen Helfand ; Coastal traffic : triangulated encounters in art/AIDS/Americas / Robb Hernández and Joey Terrill ; Dear PosterVirus, this is why you mean so much to me / Sarah Schulman ; The Normal heart, then and now / David Román ; Undetectable : the presence of HIV in contemporary American art / Rock Hushka -- Plates -- Exhibition checklist -- Contributors, Tacoma Art Museum Board of trustees.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ.AL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780295994949
  • 0295994940