num_pages: 624
description: 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.
language: English
title: Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
publisher: Bloomsbury USA