Art's Revenge in the Time of AIDS
Art Journal, Winter 1995, v. 54, no. 4, pp. 87-91
Douglas Dreishpoon reviews five mid-90's exhibits centered on the theme of AIDS. The article discusses works about and by artists affected by AIDS and touches on the importance of art as a fighting force to confront and create a discourse around illness.
ITEM 1995.143 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS – Robert Atkins
Thomas W. Sokolowski
Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death – Hilliard T. Goldfarb
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the time of AIDS – Terrence E. Dempsey
Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died from AIDS – Terry Gips
Bradley Spence
Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS – Ted Gott
Larry Kramer
Don't Mourn, Consecrate – Juan Gonzalez
Silence = Death – Grand Fury
Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing – Nan Goldin
Untitled (February 4, 1989) – Keith Haring
The Promise/I Will Never Leave You – Adrian Kellard
Self-Portrait with Skull Cane – Robert Mapplethorpe
David Wojnarowicz
Ross Bleckner
Duane Michals
Thomas Woodruff
Rod Rhodes
Jo Shane
Kathe Burkhart
Nancy Burson
General Idea
Donald Moffett
Ellen B. Neipris
Diane Neumaier
Western Blot No. 9 – Robert Farber
Il Decamerone – Giovanni Boccaccio
Madonna and Child with a Goldfinch – Bernardo Daddi
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Albrecht Dürer
Pestilence – William Blake
General Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Stricken at Jaffe – Antoine-Jean Gros
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By the Deathbed (Fever) – Edvard Munch
Death Chamber
Seura Chaya – Hannah Wilke
Icarian – Daniel Goldstein
Alec Vargo
Mark Calderon
Angels in Australia – Judy Silver
Don Eddy
Nancy Fried
Tobi Kahn
Anne Minich
Joseph Raffael
Ross Bleckner
Max Gimblett
Louise Fishman
Scott Burton
Peter Hujar
Paul Thek