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Author:
Junge, Sophie. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2016003160
Title:
Art about AIDS : Nan Goldin's exhibition Witnesses : against our vanishing / Sophie Junge ; translated by Laura Radosh.
Publisher:
De Gruyter,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
352 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Subject:
Goldin, Nan,--1953---Witnesses : against our vanishing.
AIDS (Disease) and art--United States.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--United States--Pictorial works.
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States.
Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Zurich, 2013. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
In addition to being a medical, political, and social crisis, the AIDS epidemic in the United States also led to a crisis of artistic representation. This book reveals the important political and moral role of American photographers in the social discourse on AIDS based on the 1989 New York exhibition, 'Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing' curated by photographer Nan Goldin.
ISBN:
3110451506
9783110451504
OCLC:
(OCoLC)965788968
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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