David Wojnarowicz : history keeps me awake at night / David Breslin and David Kiehl ; with contributions by Julie Ault, Gregg Bordowitz [and 3 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breslin, David, author.

Kiehl, David W., author.

Contributor:

Wojnarowicz, David.

Whitney Museum of American Art, host institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wojnarowicz, David--Exhibitions.

Wojnarowicz, David.

Local Subjects:

Wojnarowicz, David.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Distribution:

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2018]

Summary:

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online-and the large societal impact of these decisions 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.00Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (13.07-14.10.2018).

Contents:

Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg

Acknowledgments

Introduction / David Breslin and David Kiehl

Chaos reason and delight / David Breslin

Multiple selves, singular self / Gregg Bordowitz

Some sort of grace: David Wojnarowicz's vision / Marvin J. Taylor

The burning house / Hanya Yanagihara

Notes toward a frame of reference / Julie Ault

Plates / essays by David Kiehl

Biographical dateline / David Wojnarowicz, Cynthia Carr.

Notes:

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night," organized by David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection, and David Kiehl, Curator Emeritus, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July-October 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Wojnarowicz, David. Works. Selections

ISBN:

9780300221886

0300221886

OCLC:

952226766