AIDS and Representation: Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America by Johnstone, Fiona

AIDS and Representation: Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America

AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in...
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Author: Fiona Johnstone
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Language: English
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AIDS and Representation: Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America by Johnstone, Fiona

AIDS and Representation: Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America

CHF 34.85

AIDS and Representation: Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America

CHF 34.85
Author: Fiona Johnstone
Format: Paperback
Language: English
AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made 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 health humanities sensitively unpicks the entanglements between aesthetic form and the expression of lived experiences of critical and chronic ill health.

Author: Fiona Johnstone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 11/28/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781350375031

About the Author
Fiona Johnstone is an art historian and a researcher at Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities.

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