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Fire in the Belly

By Cynthia Carr

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Fire in the Belly

By Cynthia Carr

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David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity spilled out in paintings, photographs, films, texts, installations, and in his life and its recounting-creating a sort of mythos around himself. His circle of East Village artists moved into the national spotlight just as the AIDS plague began its devastating advance, and as right-wing culture warriors reared their heads. As Wojnarowicz's reputation as an artist grew, so did his reputation as an agitator-because he dealt so openly with his homosexuality, so angrily with his circumstances as a Person With AIDS, and so fiercely with his would-be censors. Fire in the Belly is the untold story of a polarizing figure at a pivotal moment in American culture-and one of the most highly acclaimed biographies of the year.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
640
Release Date:
2014-01-16
Publication Date:
2013-10-29
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1608194191
ISBN13:
9781608194193
Weight:
895 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
46 cm
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