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Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS
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Description for Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS
Paperback. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Editor(s): White, Edmund. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGB; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. These essayists include Maya Angelou, Alan Gurganus, Brad Gooch, John Berendt, Craig Lucas, Robert Rosenblum, and 18 others. Many of the subjects of the essays were already prominent - James Merrill, Paul Monette, David Wojnarowicz - but many others died young, before they were able to fulfil the promise of ... Read more
When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. These essayists include Maya Angelou, Alan Gurganus, Brad Gooch, John Berendt, Craig Lucas, Robert Rosenblum, and 18 others. Many of the subjects of the essays were already prominent - James Merrill, Paul Monette, David Wojnarowicz - but many others died young, before they were able to fulfil the promise of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299170745
SKU
V9780299170745
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About
Edmund White is professor of creative writing at Princeton University and the author of The Married Man, A Boy's Own Story, and many other books. In Cooperation with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a project of the Alliance for the Arts
Reviews for Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS
A poignant reminder of the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic on the arts. - Krista Ivy, Library Journal ""A searing, and often bitingly funny collection of personal essays by almost two dozen writers - John Barendt, Brad Gooch, Allan Gurganus, and Sarah Schulman among them - Loss within Loss remembers over twenty creative artists lost to AIDS in the ... Read more