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  1. AIDS and representation
    queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America
    Author: Johnstone, Fiona
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London

    "AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made by artists in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing the work of artists including Mark Morrisroe, Robert Blanchon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres... more

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    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
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    "AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made by artists in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing the work of artists including Mark Morrisroe, Robert Blanchon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres through the interrelated themes of sickness and mortality, desire and sexual identity, love and loss, Fiona Johnstone shows how the self-representational practices of artists with HIV and AIDS offered a richly imaginative response to the limitations of early AIDS imagery. Johnstone argues that the AIDS epidemic changed the very nature of visual representation and artistic practice, necessitating a radical new approach to conceptualising and visualising the human form. An extended epilogue considers the ongoing art historicization of the epidemic, re-contextualising the book's themes in relation to contemporary photographic works. More than just a historical discussion of the art of the AIDS crisis, AIDS and Representation contributes to an emergent body of scholarship on the visual representation of illness. Expanding the established genre of the autopathography or illness narrative beyond the predominantly textual, this important contribution to art history and the medical humanities sensitively unpicks the entanglements between aesthetic form and the expression of lived experiences of critical and chronic ill health"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781788311885; 9781350375031
    RVK Categories: LH 84160
    Subjects: AIDS (Disease) in art; AIDS (Disease) and art; AIDS (Disease); Portraits, American; Self-portraits, American
    Scope: ix, 254 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 233-251

    A Crisis of Representation: Constructing an Epidemic -- Putting a Face to AIDS: Critiquing Documentary Photography -- Mark Morrisroe: A Grandiose Aesthetic Encounter -- Robert Blanchon: Abjection, 'Absence' and Autobiography -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Falling out of Time -- Epilogue: In/Visible: Picturing HIV in Endemic Time.