Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS

Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS

University of Wisconsin Press, 2537 Daniels St., Madison, WI 53718. 305p. (Living Out). ISBN 0-299-17070-5. $29.95.
edited by Edmund White in cooperation with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a project of the Alliance for the Arts. 2001.

This exceptional book is a book of essays that eulogize some of our brightest artists that have died of AIDS. The essays are eye opening, lucid, touching, moving, and shocking. They are meant to be read one a time and not all at once. The contributors are Maya Angelou who presents a poem; John Berendt on Bruce Kelly, architect; William Berger on Chris DeBlasio, composer; Alexander Chee on Peter D. Kelloran, painter; David Gere on Joah Lowe, choreographer; Brad Gooch on Howard Brookner, filmmaker; Allan Gurganus on James Merrill, writer; Randall Kenan on John C. Russell, playwright; Phillip Lopate on Warren Sonbert, filmmaker; Craig Lucas on several artists; J. D. McClatchy on James Merril and Paul Monette, writers; Keith McDermott on Joe Brainard, visual artist; Ramsey McPhillips on Mark Morrisroe, visual artist; Patrick Moore on Robert Farber, painter; Herbert Muschamp on Frank Israle, architect and Derek Jarman, filmmaker; Felice Picano on Robert Ferro, writer; Robert Rosenblum on Scott Burton, Sculptor; Sarah Schulman on Stan Leventhal, writer/editor; Andrew Solomon, essay; Benjamin Taylor on Robert Anton, puppeteer; Jonathan Weinberg on Marc Lida, visual artist; and Philip Yenawine on David Wojnaroxicz, visual artist/writer.

This is a highly recommended book for all libraries.

Keywords: AIDS and the Arts; Patients; Biography)
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