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Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable. New YorkDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public spaceall under the specter of AIDS. Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sectionsInto the Drift and Sway, Doing Time in a Disposable Body, Spiral, and Memories that Smell like Gasolineare made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

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      Publisher: Nightboat Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/17/2025
      ISBN13: 9781643622712, 978-1643622712
      ISBN10: 1643622714
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable. New YorkDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public spaceall under the specter of AIDS. Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sectionsInto the Drift and Sway, Doing Time in a Disposable Body, Spiral, and Memories that Smell like Gasolineare made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.

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