Ecstatic antibodies : resisting the AIDS mythology / edited by Tessa Boffin and Sunil Gupta.

Date:
1990
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Description

"This book and the exhibition launched with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease. The contributors disrupt the politically-laden mythology of HIV and AIDS, and affirm the persistence of love and desire in the face of death. More than an interruption to personal life, AIDS has stimulated an eruption in creative life. By wresting control of the imagery of AIDS, Ecstatic Antibodies demystifies icons like the nation and the family and illuminates attitudes to gender, sexuality, racial and moral diversity."--Jacket.

Publication/Creation

London : Rivers Oram, 1990.

Physical description

192 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction -- The rhetoric of AIDS / Simon Watney and Sunil Gupta -- Picturing deviancy / Stuart Marshall -- Projections / Lynn Hewett -- A case of AIDS / Mandy Merck -- A short story / Joy Gregory -- Angelic rebels : lesbians and safer sex -- Portrait of the artist as a dirty young man / Allan deSouza -- (Safe) sex explained / Nicholas Lowe -- Metaphysick : every moment counts / Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst -- Race and the AIDS agenda / Mehboob Dada -- In conversation / Isaac Julien and Pratibha Parmar -- No solutions / Sunil Gupta -- Working on the inside / Nicola Field -- In memory of two friends / Emily Andersen and S.R. Tobe -- Scenarios of departure : the AIDS paintings of David Ruffell / Margot Farnham and David Ruffell -- Post-modern AIDS? / Jeffrey Weeks -- Dangerous liaisons : health, disease and representation / Roberta McGrath -- Fairy tales, 'facts' and gossip : lesbians and AIDS / Tessa Boffin -- Representing AIDS / Simon Watney.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ.AH
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ISBN

  • 1854890050
  • 9781854890054