Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299170705 ISBN 13: 9780299170707

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001

Synopsis

When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. These essayists include Maya Angelou, Allan Gurganus, Brad Gooch, John Berendt, Craig Lucas, Robert Rosenblum, and seventeen others. Many of the subjects of the essays were already prominent - James Merrill, Paul Monette, David Wojnarowicz - but many others died young, before they were able to fulfill the promise of their lives and art. Loss within Loss spans all of the arts and includes portraits of choreographers, painters, poets, actors, playwrights, sculptors, editors, composers, and architects. This landmark book is published in association with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a national organization that preserves art works created by artists living with HIV or lost to AIDS. Loss within Loss stands as a powerful reminder of the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic on the arts community and as the first real survey of that devastation. Though these accounts are often intensely sad, Loss within Loss is an invigorating, sometimes even exuberant, testimony to the sheer joy of being an artist...and being alive.

About this title

About the Author

Edmund White is the award-winning author of The Married Man, The Farewell Symphony, Genet, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, A Boy's Own Story, and several other books. He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299170705
• ISBN 13: 9780299170707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: White Edmund