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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful : How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPublicaffairs
ISBN-10164503660X
ISBN-139781645036609
eBay Product ID (ePID)25062256725
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIt Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful : How Aids Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Publication Year2024
SubjectPublic Health, Lgbt Studies / General, Art & Politics, Social History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Social Science, History, Medical
AuthorJack Lowery
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"I picked up Jack Lowery's It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful and didn't stop reading it for the next three days. Lowery's plainspoken, patient, and probing approach to his dramatic subject matter is totally compelling, and his focus on Gran Fury fills in a critical piece of aesthetic and political history. Anyone and everyone interested in still-urgent questions about the relations between art, activism, living, and dying should immediately read this book."-- Maggie Nelson, author of THE ARGONAUTS
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.1969792
SynopsisAn "unsparing account" ( NPR ) of art collective Gran Fury, which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis., Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize The story of art collective Gran Fury-which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda-offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic.Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis.Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists., In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic annihilated queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. From the activist group ACT UP, an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis.
LC Classification NumberRA643.8.L69 2024
