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Art AIDS America, Jonathan David Katz ; Rock Hushka, [with 13 others]

Label
Art AIDS America, Jonathan David Katz ; Rock Hushka, [with 13 others]
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Art AIDS America
Nature of contents
catalogs
Oclc number
917362964
Responsibility statement
Jonathan David Katz ; Rock Hushka, [with 13 others]
Summary
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
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