Fluid exchanges : artists and critics in the AIDS crisis / edited by James Miller.

Date:
[1992]
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Publication/Creation

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1992]

Physical description

xii, 402 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents

Introduction / James Miller -- Photography. Visible Lesions: Images of the PWA in America / Jan Zita Grover. Appendix: AIDS Archives and Resources for Visual Researchers. A Convergence of Stakes: Photography, Feminism, and AIDS / Monika Gagnon -- Painting. 'The Soul is the Prison of the Body': Fabo on Foucault / David White. Our Lady of AIDS: The Occult Design of Andre Durand's Votive Offering / James Miller -- Film and Video. The Syndrome is the System: A Political Reading of Longtime Companion / Bart Beaty. Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama / Thomas Waugh. Parma Violets for Wayland Flowers / John Greyson -- Memorials and Public Art. The Scythe, the Scales, and the Palette: AIDS and the Rupture of Representational Strategies / Monique Brunet-Weinmann. On Reading the Obituaries in the Bay Area Reporter / Daniel Harris -- Prevention Campaigns. The Representation of AIDS in Third World Development Discourse / Jeff O'Malley.
Portfolio One: Posters from the Visual AIDS Exhibition, London. Regional Art and Historical Museums, 11-20 October 1988 -- Crisis and Criticism. Criticism as Activism. Appendix: Le Manifeste de Montreal / James Miller. Portfolio Two: 'The Body & Society' Exhibition: Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario, September-December 1988 -- Media and Mediation. 'John': London Free Press, 1 April 1988 / Dahlia Reich. The AIDS-Timmy: Reflections on a Cultural Niche / David Kinahan. 'A Fair Representation of His Feelings': A Reply to David Kinahan / Dahlia Reich. 'aids kills fags dead ... ': Cultural Activism in Grand Bend. Appendix: AIDS and the Human Rights Code / John Gordon and Clarence Crossman. 'Fighting spirit remains in 29-year-old victim': London Free Press, 8 July 1991 / Dahlia Reich -- Literature. AIDS in the Novel: Getting It Straight / James Miller. Cell Wars: Military Metaphors and the Crisis of Authority in the AIDS Epidemic / Brian Patton -- Legal and Political Discourse.
Law as an 'Art Form' Reflecting AIDS: A Challenge to the Province and Function of Law / Margaret A. Somerville. The State, Public Policy, and AIDS Discourse / Barry D. Adam -- Psychosexual Discourse. Sacrificial Sex / Arthur Kroker. The Possibilities of Permutation: Pleasure, Proliferation, and the Politics of Gay Identity in the Age of AIDS / Simon Watney.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 0802058922
  • 9780802058928
  • 0802068243
  • 9780802068248