David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape [Hardcover]

David Wojnarowicz (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 18, 2002

A powerful and evocative retrospective collection of an artist's life.

Flaring with immediacy and unbridled intensity, David Wojnarowicz's work embraces and illuminates the repressed, the unspeakable, and the intolerable. This collection of Wojnarowicz's paintings, photographs, and writings also includes essays by Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Fran Lebowitz, and Karen Finley, among others.

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". . . Above all, Wojnarowicz seems to have relished photography's possibilities." --Christine Swartz Hartley, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

David Wojnarowicz was born in 1954. His work appears in numerous museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum in New York. He died of AIDS in 1992.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 88 pages
• Publisher: Aperture (May 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893815675
• ISBN-13: 978-0893815677
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 10 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,944,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Wojnarowicz, April 13, 2000

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This review is from: David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape (Hardcover)

David Wojnarowicz is presented here almost in his total artistic form (only the music playing and the filmmaking are absent). The paintings and photographs -- beautifully reproduced -- go together with sparse writings by the artist. Adding to this first-hand material, there are several very insightful essays on his work, as well as interviews of other artists who knew him. The way all features are organized is also pretty well balanced. This one is, therefore, the perfect artistic album: enchanting, at times almost paralyzing in its beauty, and quite useful in the information it gives about Wojnarowicz and his work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars fast service!, January 13, 2009

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