Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608194191 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 624 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Breathing Under Water Fire in the Belly, the first biography of David Wojnarowicz, is perhaps the saddest and most devestating book you will read this year. It contains graphic descriptions of the child abuse Wojnarowicz suffered in a completely dysfunctional family circle, his life on the streets as a hustler and male prostitute, his comb. One of the finest artist biographies ever Cynthia Carr has accomplished the near impossible: she has captured the essence of the brilliance of genius that was David Wojnarowicz while keeping him in context of the brutally sad life he led. Carr met Wojnarowicz in 1982 in the office of the art magazine Artforum just before Wojnarowicz became a leading figure in. "An Amazing Life" according to Roger. I found this book fascinating. I previously knew nothing of David Wojnarowicz other than what I knew of the controversy surrounding the removal of his painting by the Smithsonian director. In fact, when my book club selected the book, I didn't immediately associate the artist's name with that controversy. I can't clai
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.. 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
Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Artforum, Bookforum, Modern Painters, the Drama Review, and other publications. She is also the author of Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America. Cynthia Carr was a columnist and arts reporter for the Village Voice from 1984 to 2003. Writing under the byline C. Carr lives in New York
From Bookforum Carr's book is unimprovable as a biography—thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical—as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial, presenting him in his entirety, twenty years dead but his ardor uncooled. — Luc Sante