AIDS and representation : queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America
- Title
- AIDS and representation : queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America / Fiona Johnstone.
- Published by
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
- ©2023
- Author
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Details
- Description
- ix, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made by artists in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing the work of artists including Mark Morrisroe, Robert Blanchon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres through the interrelated themes of sickness and mortality, desire and sexual identity, love and loss, Fiona Johnstone shows how the self-representational practices of artists with HIV and AIDS offered a richly imaginative response to the limitations of early AIDS imagery. Johnstone argues that the AIDS epidemic changed the very nature of visual representation and artistic practice, necessitating a radical new approach to conceptualising and visualising the human form. An extended epilogue considers the ongoing art historicization of the epidemic, re-contextualising the book's themes in relation to contemporary photographic works. More than just a historical discussion of the art of the AIDS crisis, AIDS and Representation contributes to an emergent body of scholarship on the visual representation of illness. Expanding the established genre of the autopathography or illness narrative beyond the predominantly textual, this important contribution to art history and the medical humanities sensitively unpicks the entanglements between aesthetic form and the expression of lived experiences of critical and chronic ill health"--
- Alternative title
- AIDS & representation : queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- AIDS (Disease) in art
- AIDS (Disease) and art > United States
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients > United States > Portraits
- Portraits, American > 20th century
- Self-portraits, American > 20th century
- AIDS (Disease) and art
- AIDS (Disease) in art
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients
- Portraits, American
- Self-portraits, American
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Portraits
- Contents
- A Crisis of Representation: Constructing an Epidemic -- Putting a Face to AIDS: Critiquing Documentary Photography -- Mark Morrisroe: A Grandiose Aesthetic Encounter -- Robert Blanchon: Abjection, 'Absence' and Autobiography -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Falling out of Time -- Epilogue: In/Visible: Picturing HIV in Endemic Time.
- Call number
- JQE 24-377
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Johnstone, Fiona, author.
- Title
- AIDS and representation : queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America / Fiona Johnstone.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
- Copyright date
- ©2023
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological term
- 1900-1999
- Cover title
- AIDS & representation : queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America
- Other form:
- Online version: Johnstone, Fiona. AIDS and representation London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350201194 (DLC) 2022048174
- LCCN
- 2022048173
- ISBN
- 9781788311885 hardcover
- 1788311884 hardcover
- 9781350375031 paperback
- 1350375039 paperback
- 9781350201194 electronic book
- 9781350201200 electronic publication
- 9781350201217 electronic book
- Research call number
- JQE 24-377