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Chantal joffe reads extracts from david wojnarowiczs. Although wojnarowicz gestures towards the existence of a disruptive queer temporality in the opening sentence of close to the knives, it is in the central essay of the collection, living close to the knives, that he develops a clear framework for these ideas. By the time david wojnarowicz died of aids in july 1992, he had become one of the eras definitive artists, a protean maker. Filthy, beautiful, and sharp to the point of piercing, it is both an exploration of the world seen through the eyes of an artist, and a moving portrait of a generation living, grieving, and dying through the aids crisis. One of the new york times 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years david wojnarowiczs brief but eventful life was not easy. A powerful and vivid memoir about life in new york during the aids epidemic. 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. Twentyfive years on, his extraordinary, electrifying memoir close to the knives has been brought back into print in the uk by canongate, with a new introduction by olivia laing, whose latest book the lonely city has done much to raise the profile of an artist largely overlooked in this country. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. David wojnarowicz, olivia laing writer of introduction. David wojnarowicz courtesy of the estate of david wojnarowicz and p. From the authors violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of new york city, to recognition as one of the most provocative. A memoir of disintegration by wojnarowicz, david isbn.
To celebrate davids life and work, and to mark the exciting publication by canongate of a new edition of his visceral, inspirational and uncompromising memoir close to the knives featuring brand new introduction by olivia laing the lonely city we present a night of art, recital, film, performance and conversation at islington mill. Close to the knives is the artist, writer and activist david wojnarowicz s extraordinary memoir. David wojnarowiczcourtesy of the estate of david wojnarowicz and p. May 12, 2016 from the series arthur rimbaud in new york 197879.
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