David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape - Hardcover

Lippard, Lucy R.; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893815675 ISBN 13: 9780893815677

Publisher: Aperture, 2002

Synopsis

A powerful and evocative retrospective collection of an artist's life.

Flaring with immediacy and unbridled intensity, David Wojnarowicz's work embraces and illuminates the repressed, the unspeakable, and the intolerable. This collection of Wojnarowicz's paintings, photographs, and writings also includes essays by Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Fran Lebowitz, and Karen Finley, among others.

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Review

It is potent, subversive, and heartbreaking--Krystal Grow "American Photo "

The word undone attests to his capacity for making an emotional connection with viewers, but also to the magical way in which his art seems even now to rewrite the world by restoring that which has been written out of history.--Olivia Laing "Bookforum "

In Aperture's new and expanded 20th-anniversary rerelease, "Brush Fires in the Social Landscape" retains every bit of the high-intensity rage, sadness, and fear that Wojnarowicz's work always had. With its focus on prejudice against gays during the time of the AIDS crisis, Wojnarowicz's work could easily feel like a time capsule, but it doesn't. "ARTnews"

It is potent, subversive, and heartbreaking "American Photo"

The word undone attests to his capacity for making an emotional connection with viewers, but also to the magical way in which his art seems even now to rewrite the world by restoring that which has been written out of history. "Bookforum"

Although artist David Wojnarowicz died in 1992, his works seems to have colored the complete decade of the '90s. His incendiary take on AIDS, censorship, and homophobia gave a visual momentum to a rising revolution of political and activist art and demonstration. "Advocate"

In Aperture s new and expanded 20th-anniversary rerelease, "Brush Fires in the Social Landscape" retains every bit of the high-intensity rage, sadness, and fear that Wojnarowicz s work always had. "Art News"

The artist s use of photography, at times in conjunction with text and painting, was extraordinary, as was his unprecedented way of addressing the AIDS crisisand issues of censorship, homophobia, and narrative. "The New York Public Library""

In Aperture's new and expanded 20th-anniversary rerelease, Brush Fires in the Social Landscape retains every bit of the high-intensity rage, sadness, and fear that Wojnarowicz's work always had. With its focus on prejudice against gays during the time of the AIDS crisis, Wojnarowicz's work could easily feel like a time capsule, but it doesn't.--Alex Greenberger "ARTnews "

From the Back Cover

Twentieth Anniversary Edition
David Wojnarowicz s use of photography was remarkably innovative, as was his unprecedented way of addressing the AIDS crisis and issues of censorship, homophobia, and narrative. Brush Fires in the Social Landscape began in collaboration with the artist before his death in 1992 and first published inn 1994, engaged those who Wojnarowicz would refer to as his tribe or community. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of Brush Fires, when interest in the artist s work has increased exponentially, Aperture has expanded and redesigned this seminal publication to be even more inclusive. It is the only book that features the breadth of Wojnarowicz s work with photography. The contributors from artist and writer friends to the lawyer who represented him in his case against Donald Wildmon and the American Family Association, to the next generation of artists who were influenced by Wojnarowicz s sensibility together offer a compelling, provocative understanding of the artist and his work.

Contributors include: Vince Aletti, Barry Blinderman, Cynthia Carr, David Cole, Shannon Ebner, Leonard Fink, Karen Finley, Nan Goldin, Felix Guattari, Wade Guyton, Melissa Harris, Elizabeth Hess, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Peter Hujar, Fran Lebowitz, Lucy R. Lippard (introduction), Sylvere Lotringer, Carlo McCormick, Henrik Olesen, Wendy Olsoff, Adam Putnam, Tom Rauffenbart, James Romberger, Emily Roysdon, Marion Scemama, Gary Schneider, Amy Scholder, Kiki Smith, Andreas Sterzing, Zoe Strauss, Marvin J. Taylor, Lynne Tillman, and Wolfgang Tillmans."

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0893815675
• ISBN 13: 9780893815677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88