| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
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text file PDF |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
In addition to being a medical, political, and social crisis, the AIDS epidemic in the United States also led to a crisis of artistic representation. This book reveals the important political and moral role of American photographers in the social discourse on AIDS based on the 1989 New York exhibition, 'Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing' curated by photographer Nan Goldin. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ROOM 1. WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING -- ROOM 2. WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING -- INTRODUCTION. ART about AIDS -- CONCEPT and CONTEXT of WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING -- PHOTOGRAPHIC SELFREPRESENTATION in WITNESSES and in the PRESS -- NAN GOLDIN'S COMMUNITY between MARGINALIZATION and DISSOCIATION -- SUMMARY and FUTURE PROSPECTS -- APPENDIX -- CREDITS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Backmatter. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Goldin, Nan, 1953- -- Exhibitions.
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Goldin, Nan, 1953- |
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Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing. |
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AIDS (Disease) and art.
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AIDS (Disease) and art. |
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AIDS (Disease) in art.
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AIDS (Disease) in art. |
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AIDS (Disease)
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AIDS (Disease) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Junge, Sophie. Art about AIDS : Nan Goldin's Exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, ©2016 9783110451504 |
| ISBN |
9783110453072 |
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311045307X |
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9783110453089 |
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3110453088 |
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3110451506 |
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9783110451504 |
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9783110451528 |
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3110451522 |
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9783110451528 |
| Standard No. |
9783110451504 |
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10.1515/9783110453072 |
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