Memories That Smell like Gasoline (eBook)

David Wojnarowicz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
46 Seiten
Nightboat Books (Verlag)
978-1-64362-267-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable.New York MagazineDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public spaceall under the specter of AIDS.Here are David Wojnarowiczs most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sectionsInto the Drift and Sway, Doing Time in a Disposable Body, Spiral, and Memories that Smell like Gasolineare made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, WojnarowiczsMemories that Smell like Gasolineis a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.The new and revised edition features a foreword by Ocean Vuong and a note from the editor, Amy Scholder.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2025
• Vorwort: Ocean Vuong
• Zusatzinfo: color and black & white watercolors
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abuse • activism • AIDS • AIDS activism • Archival • art-making • cultural critique • drawing • film-making • gay • Graffiti • History • HIV • ink-drawing • intimacy • LGBT • LGBTQ • Memoir • New York • Paint • painting • Porn • Pornography • Queer • Sex Work • Sketch • sketching
• ISBN-10: 1-64362-267-6 / 1643622676
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64362-267-5 / 9781643622675