Loss within Loss
eBook - PDF

Loss within Loss

Artists in the Age of AIDS

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Loss within Loss

Artists in the Age of AIDS

About this book

When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss  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 eighteen 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 their lives and art. Loss within Loss spans all of the arts and includes portraits of choreographers, painters, poets, actors, playwrights, sculptors, editors, composers, and architects.

This landmark book is published in association with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a national organization that preserves art works created by artists living with HIV or lost to AIDS. Loss within Loss stands as a powerful reminder of the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic on the arts community and as the first real survey of that devastation. Though these accounts are often intensely sad, Loss within Loss is an invigorating, sometimes even exuberant, testimony to the sheer joy of being an artist . . . and being alive.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: The American Sublime: Living and Dying as an Artist
  3. Through the Looking Glass
  4. After Peter
  5. Howard, Art, and the Seventies
  6. Where R U, John Crussell? Or, Inventing Humanity, One Play at a Time
  7. Self-Portrait with Rivals
  8. Corpses Dancing, Dancing Ghosts
  9. Who Turned Out the Limelight? : The Tragi-Comedy of Mark Morrisroe
  10. Robert Ferro
  11. Warren Sonbert
  12. Prodigal Son
  13. Chris DeBlasio
  14. Remembrance of Things Past: Marc Lida’s Proust Watercolors
  15. Trying to Find Words for Things Unspeakable
  16. Bruce Kelly, Landscape Architect
  17. Fucked
  18. Two Deaths, Two Lives
  19. Scott Burton
  20. Robert Farber
  21. Homage to Joe
  22. The Art of Losing
  23. James Merrill
  24. The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS
  25. Subject Biographies
  26. Contributor Biographies