Art AIDS America
By: Jonathan David Katz ; Rock Hushka, [with 13 others]
Contributors: Tacoma Art Museum
Publisher: Published in association with University of Washington Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780295994949
Subjects: Modern Art; Conceptual art; Catalogs; Exhibitions; AIDS (Disease) and art
Description: Art AIDS America' is the first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice. 'Art AIDS America' surveys more than 100 works of American art from the early 1980s to the present, reintroducing and exploring the whole spectrum of artistic responses to HIV/AIDS, from in-your-face activism to quiet elegy.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held October 3, 2015-January 10, 2016 at the Tacoma Art Museum; Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Ga.: February 20-May 22, 2016; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY: June 23-September 11, 2016.