David Wojnarowicz was a gay painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.
He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and later lived with his mother in New York City, where he attended the High School of Performing Arts for a brief period. From 1970 until 1973, after dropping out of school, he for a time lived on the streets of New York City and worked as a farmer on the Canadian border.
Upon returning to New York City, he saw a particularly prolific period for his artwork from the late 1970s through the 1980s. During this period, he made super-8 films, such as Heroin, began a photographic series of Arthur Rimbaud, did stencil work, played in a band called 3 Teens Kill 4, and exhibited his work in well-known East Village galleries.
In 1985, he was included in the Whitney Biennial, the so-called Graffiti Show. In the 1990s, he fought and successfully issued an injunction against Donald Wildmon and the American Family Association on the grounds that Wojnarowicz's work had been copied and distorted in violation of the New York Artists' Authorship Rights Act.
Wojnarowicz died of AIDS on July 22, 1992. His personal papers are part of the Downtown Collection held by the Fales Library at New York University.
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays - a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation - Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives - politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.
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If you’ve never read David Wojnarowicz’s heartbreaking CLOSE TO THE KNIVES: A Memoir of Disintegration, you’re in for an incredible ride. It’s an uncomfortably passionate and raw book — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the “Fear of Diversity in America.”
评分補卡/他的文字真的太美太溫柔瞭,但又很有力量
评分haven't seen his other works, but wojnarowitcz is definitely a talented writer. His language is so beautiful. tender love, intense living. moved.
评分補卡/他的文字真的太美太溫柔瞭,但又很有力量
评分If you’ve never read David Wojnarowicz’s heartbreaking CLOSE TO THE KNIVES: A Memoir of Disintegration, you’re in for an incredible ride. It’s an uncomfortably passionate and raw book — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the “Fear of Diversity in America.”
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