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Release Year: 2012

ISBN: 9781596915336

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Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-10

1596915331

ISBN-13

9781596915336

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109282127

Product Key Features

Book Title

Fire in the Belly : the Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz

Number of Pages

624 Pages

Language

English

Topic

United States / 20th Century, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Lgbt

Publication Year

2012

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Art, Biography & Autobiography, History

Author

Cynthia Carr

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height

1.9 in

Item Weight

30.4 Oz

Item Length

9.5 in

Item Width

6.5 in

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Trade

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2012-000684

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Reviews

A compelling picture of a time in New York that has now completely vanished, when an existence devoted to art, on the margins, was still possible, and not necessarily something to be romanticized.... The picture of East Village culture that Carr offers--she covered it for years as a reporter for the Village Voice--?is alone worth the price of the book. Despite her friendship with Wojnarowicz in the last months of his life, Carr is willing to paint the artist in clear-eyed prose, balancing unflattering stories of drug use and success-induced paranoia with those of his trenchant and harrowing AIDS activism and defense of freedom of expression. (The intricate details of his battle with right-wing critics will, one hopes, provide fodder for today's protestors.), Former Village Voice columnist Carr weaves an intense...portrait of a complex artist in a complex time. Carr knew David Wojnarowicz (1954-92), the controversial creator of the art film A Fire in My Belly, and she bears him witness in this politically charged look at his life. Using her skills as a reporter, Carr has pieced together this moving though unsentimental tribute from interviews with friends, candid conversations with Wojnarowicz before his death, and his own deep and provocative writings. She also discusses the politics then and now that dominate the so-called culture wars. An up-close look at the devastation of AIDS, this first full-length biography explains Wojnarowicz's powerful iconography in the context of a (literally) dying art scene., It is no small achievement that Carr, who first met the artist when he was part of the East Village art scene of the early '80s, shortly before she began writing for the Village Voice, has managed to portray [Wojnarowicz] in remarkably rich dimensions.... Carr's detailed research into Wojnarowicz's days and nights, friends and fall-outs, hook-ups, loves, losses, travels, homeless stretches, intimate connections...and eventual sickness and death is both heartbreaking and unflinchingly honest. Carr has managed to create not only an essential biography but required reading for anyone interested in the '80s art world., Heartbreaking and unflinchingly honest. Carr has managed to create not only an essential biography but required reading for anyone interested in the '80s art world, A vivid portrait of the artist as a young man . . . It's no surprise that Carr writes perceptively about Wojnarowicz's art and the era's 'culture wars.' But she also is exceptionally good at fleshing out her subject as a person . . . Carr has resurrected him . . . fully and hauntingly., A beautifully written, sympathetic, unsentimental portrait of one of the most lastingly influential late 20th century New York artists., A prodigious chronicle.... Wojnarowicz emerges from these pages as a forceful, enigmatic character.... probing, masterful storytelling.... A sprawling, elegiac biography that mourns the loss of David Wojnarowicz and the art scene in which he flourished., [Carr] delivers the definitive biography of this complicated artist.... she provides a thoroughly researched picture of his life and times...the author offers some intriguing insights about Wojnarowicz's inner demons and his devotion to his art., [Carr] tells [Wojnarowicz's] life story remarkably thoroughly and can't-put-it-down readably. Her quotations of his writing reveal an able Kerouacean., [A] lucidly composed, skillfully contextualized first complete biography of David Wojnarowicz.... The most powerful sections of this engrossing book give insight into the intersection between the culture wars of the early 1990s and Wojnarowicz's 1991 work, Tongues of Flame., Thanks to Carr's meticulous portrait, [Wojnarowicz's] work again feels primal, magicked away from the bluster of whatever controversies it provoked. We come away from a book like this with a keen sense of life's strangeness and haste, its abuses and beauty, its ultimately terrible vanishing., "In this lucidly composed, skillfully contextualized first complete biography of David Wojnarowicz, [Carr] reveals how the controversial artist's life experience shaped his art and politics...Vividly detail[s]the East Village art scene and Wojnarowicz's place in it... Powerful... Engrossing." - Publishers Weekly " Fire in the Belly is a painfully beautiful book, telling the short, harsh, and defiant story of a very complex man. The best contemporary artist's biography I know, it reads like a novel, with the brief, crazy Lower East Side art scene and the AIDS crisis as leading characters, revealed through extensive interviews with Wojnarowicz and his friends. Carr does an extraordinary job of exposing the depths of David's amazing life and art." -Lucy R. Lippard, author of Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change "This is a biography of the American Rimbaud: just as flamboyant, just as self-destructive, just as creative. It is the best portrait I've read of the gritty East Village art scene, of the poverty and drugs and unexpected successes. Cynthia Carr deserves a prize for her heroic research." -Edmund White, author of Jack Holmes and his Friend and City Boy, Carr's biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it's also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s . . . [Carr] has seized upon a vivid and peculiarly American story., Biographers often have an uncommon knack for describing even the most fascinating individuals and incidents with the dullest possible prose, boring the reader with the most uninteresting childhood details and rushing the parts that matter. Carr doesn't make such mistakes. At almost 600 pages, her book is monumental, yet somehow it feels concise. She uses short, clear sentences throughout, successfully invoking complicated events and their implications with a staccato grace. While she doesn't depart from the conventional linear structure of the biography, she inhabits it with a vitality so often lacking.... thankfully Carr reveals the contradictions and complications of [Wojnarowicz's] life, an important task of any successful biographer.... Fire in the Belly is an impressive work that clearly took years to make.... Carr breaks free of one of the most deadening strictures of the conventional biography: she enters herself not just into the narrative, but into the life of the person she is investigating. While this first meeting happens by chance, and only results in a casual acquaintanceship, Carr's simple act of disclosure allows for the most intimate parts of the book. Fire in the Belly centers around the life of Wojnarowicz, but it also serves as an unofficial history of 1970s and 1980s West Village gay life (and the West Side piers in particular), the emergence of AIDS, the East Village art scene of the 1980s (most extensively), and the censorship wars of the late-'80s and early-'90s.... In some ways this book serves as an elegy for a culture of artists in downtown New York ravaged by AIDS.... This is not just a story about an explosive artist who led a tumultuous life, or even an explosive artist and his equally dynamic and equally complicated friends. It's a story about 'us'.... not just a tender biography of one brazen individual but an intimate text displaying the possibilities of connection in the face of adversity., Praise for Our Town : "Sorrowful and penetrating." - New York Times Book Review "One of the most fascinating and challenging explorations of [race] to arrive in a long time." - Michael Agger , Mother Jones "Reading it prompts only words of praise. Carr has thoroughly immersed herself in her subject, becoming part of it." - Philadelphia Inquirer "Exhaustively researched... A book righteous in its fight for truth."- Entertainment Weekly , Editor's Choice "No doubt [James] Baldwin would have admired Carr's intelligent, driven, traumatic reckoning." - Newsday "Extremely well researched and well written... A must-read." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, [Fire in the Belly 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., Heartbreaking and unflinchingly honest. Carr has managed to create not only an essential biography but required reading for anyone interested in the ¿s art world

Dewey Decimal

700.92 B

Synopsis

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. 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., In December 2010, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it responded to protests from the Catholic League by voluntarily censoring an excerpt of David Wojnarowicz's 'A Fire in My Belly' from its show on American portraiture. ..Why a work of art could stir such emotions is at the heart of Cynthia Carr's Fire in the Belly, the first biography of a beleaguered art-world figure who became one of the most important voices of his generation. Wojnarowicz emerged from a Dickensian childhood that included orphanages, abusive and absent parents, and a life of hustling on the street. He first found acclaim in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for its abandoned buildings, junkies, and burgeoning art scene. Along with Keith Haring, Nan Goldin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wojnarowicz helped redefine art for the times. ..As uptown art collectors looked downtown for the next big thing, this community of cultural outsiders was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. The ensuing culture war, the neighborhood's gentrification, and the AIDS crisis then devastated the East Village scene. Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of thirty-seven. Carr's brilliant biography traces the untold story of a controversial and seminal figure at a pivotal moment in American culture., 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. 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., The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death.

LC Classification Number

N6537.W63C37 2012

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