David Wojnarowicz
Subtitle: a definitive history of five or six years on the lower east side
By: interviews by Sylvère Lotringer ; edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino ; co-edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus and Justin Cavin
Contributors: Lotringer, Sylvère; Ambrosino, Giancarlo
Series: Semiotext(e) native agents series
Publisher: Semiotext(e); Distributed by MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781584350354
Subjects: Wojnarowicz, David; Wojnarowicz, David -- Friends and associates -- Interviews; Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews; East Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Genres: Interviews
Description: "In the wake of David Wojnarowicz's death, critic and cultural theorist Sylvere Lotringer undertook to track down all of Wojnarowicz's friends and former collaborators. Lotringer wanted to talk not just about David, but about the East Village cultural scene they'd created. Some - like Nan Goldin and Kiki Smith - had become luminaries in the international art world. Others - like Bill Rice, Marguerite Van Cook, and Steve Brown - remained local. Through their accounts, the protagonists of the East Village art scene reclaim their history, on their own terms. Illustrated with photographs and artworks by Gary Azon, Nan Goldin, James Romberger, Peter Hujar, Richard Kern, Marion Scemama, Andreas Sterzing, Tommy Turner and David Wojanarowicz, Five or Six Years tears open art history's myth of the single Great Artist to reveal Wojnarowicz's real life, and the real lives surrounding him."--Jacket.