Cynthia Carr
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death
'Carr's biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it's also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s . . . a vivid and peculiarly American story' New York Times
'A beautifully written, sympathetic, unsentimental portrait...
'Carr's biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it's also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s . . . a vivid and peculiarly American story' New York Times
'A beautifully written, sympathetic, unsentimental portrait...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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