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Title: Close to the Knives : A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz ISBN: 0-679-73227-6 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 May, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of my favorite artists
Comment: I first discovered Wojnarowicz in a "Village Voice" article in 1990. Everything about his work intrigued me. He had a passion for life, and a sort of well-placed fury that is invigorating without being negative and worked in almost every type of art medium possible. I did a Master's thesis on his works that include photography and writing in 1994.
I first picked up _Close to the Knives_ over 10 years ago and I've thumbed through it many times since. It's a combination of stories, essays, talks, and catalogue entries. The beginning is a bit difficult because there isn't a lot of punctuation. But the stories begin to slowly make sense, and get more grammatically correct. Throughout his writing wanders from being angry, scathingly funny, to erotic and back again.
I'd recommend him to anyone interested in gay/lesbian writing, outsider art, the history of AIDS and the anti-NEA battles in the early 90s. Apparently his estate is releasing more writings as time goes on, so I'm not up to date on everything available. But _Memories That Smell Like Gasoline_ is good, although depressing.
Books on his visual art are _Fever_ and _Tongues of Flame_ (both museum catalogues), and _Brush Fires in the Social Landscape_ (a book with essays by friends and great photos published by Aperture photography magazine). I can't easily describe his visual work, but he had a great visual style, a wonderful sense of composition. Early on he exhibited graffiti type paintings, and explored photography/writing more from the late 80s onwards. I like his photography the best, usually including his writing. He died of an AIDS-related illness July 22, 1992.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Mortal Coil
Comment: Enter the young male prostitute, performance artist, author, street monger, and angry prophet. He was all of these things and more until AIDS finally claimed him. But with Close to the Knives, he has left us all a very precious legacy--a frame of reference that begs us to truly witness the politics of suffering in American society and become more compassionate in the process. His omnivorous approach to our culture is dizzying, enraging, mysterious, beautiful, dangerous, heartbreaking, and very very necessary. When I finished reading it, I turned it over and started again. I will never be the same.....I have been galvanized.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Rude Awakening of a Sophomore
Comment: Close to the Knives is an extremely explicit book on homosexual reations that include very violent behavior. It is about a man who is a prostitute and sells himself to make money. One should know before reading it that it is a pornagraphic book that pushes another life style on others.
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Title: In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz by Amy Scholder ISBN: 0802136710 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz, Amy Scholder ISBN: 0802135048 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Fever: Art of David Wojnarowicz by David Wojnarowicz, Dan Cameron, Mysoon Rizk, Cynthia Carr, Amy Scholder, N.Y.) New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York ISBN: 0847821447 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz ISBN: 0963109502 Publisher: Artspace Books Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (Public Planet Books) by Jane Gallop ISBN: 0822319187 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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