David Wojnarowicz

History Keeps Me Awake at Night

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Pub Date 17 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 03 Aug 2018
Yale University Press | Whitney Museum of American Art

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The first comprehensive and most definitive source to date on David Wojnarowicz

This engaging and richly illustrated book comprehensively examines the life and art of David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992), who came to prominence in New York’s East Village art world of the 1980s, actively embracing all media and forging an expansive range of work both fiercely political and highly personal. First displayed in raw storefront galleries, his work achieved national attention at the same moment that the AIDS epidemic was affecting a generation of artists, himself included.
 
In a thoughtful overview essay, David Breslin looks at the breadth of the artist’s work as well as Wojnarowicz’s broad range of interests and influences, situating the artist in the art-historical canon and pushing beyond the biographical focus that has characterized much of the scholarship on Wojnarowicz to fully assess his paintings, photographs, installations, performances, and writing. A close examination of groups of works by David Kiehl sheds new light on the artist’s process and the context in which the works were created. Essays by Julie Ault, Gregg Bordowitz, C. Carr, Marvin Taylor, and National Book Award finalist Hanya Yanagihara investigate the relationship between artistic production and cultural activism during the AIDS crisis, as well as provide a necessary accounting and close evaluation of divergent practices that have frequently been subsumed under broad labels like “East Village,” “queer,” “postmodern,” and “neo-expressionist.”

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(07/13/18–09/30/18)

Mudam Luxembourg-Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
(10/26/2019–02/02/2020)

The first comprehensive and most definitive source to date on David Wojnarowicz

This engaging and richly illustrated book comprehensively examines the life and art of David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992)...

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Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(07/13/18–09/30/18)

Mudam Luxembourg-Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean​
(November 2019–March 2020)

Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(07/13/18–09/30/18)

Mudam Luxembourg-Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean​
(November 2019–March 2020)


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ISBN 9780300221886
PRICE $65.00 (USD)
PAGES 384

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