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Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-92) was also the author of three classic books: Close to the Knives, The Waterfront Journals and Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, now back in print from Artspace. This volume collects four tales--"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral" and the title story--interspersed with ink drawings by the artist. "Sometimes it gets dark in here behind these eyes I feel like the physical equivalent of a scream. The highway at night in the headlights of this speeding car speeding is the only motion that lets the heart unravel and in the wind of the road the two story framed houses appear one after the other like some cinematic stage set..." From these opening sentences of the book (in "Into the Drift and Sway"), Wojnarowicz lets loose a salvo of explicit gay sexual reverie harshly lit by the New York cityscape.
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David Wojnarowicz is a visual and performance artist and writer. He has exhibited his visual art in galleries worldwide and has collaborated on many films and videos, including Silence=Death. He lives in New York City.
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- PublisherARTSPACE BOOKS
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0963109502
- ISBN 13 9780963109507
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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(1992)
ISBN 10: 0963109502
ISBN 13: 9780963109507
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Book Description 61 pp.; 21 x 16 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; "David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, the longing for love, and sexuality in the specter of AIDS in Memories that Smell like Gasoline. Memory drawings, ten cartoon/comic narratives; ink paintings of 3rd avenue movie houses (before health dep't closures 1988-1989), ten diaristic studies and dream-like memoirs reenact episodes from the artist's life in a sometimes devastating, always sublime document about coming of age in America." -- publisher's statement. Very Good. Light edge-wear including bumping of corners with scratching and dust soiling of covers, contents clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 36840
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