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Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz by David Wojnarowicz
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900170Author David WojnarowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz 9780802135049
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802135049Author David WojnarowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint -
The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz 9781999922313
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.62A visceral and carnivalesque mosaic of life at the fringes The Waterfront Journals is a road trip through the sensuous, perilous landscape of alternative America - a series of fictional monologues... -
Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz 9780679732273
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732273Author David WojnarowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz 9781786890276
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David... -
David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape by 9781597112949
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $41.37David Wojnarowicz's use of photography, at times in conjunction with text and painting, was extraordinary, as was his unprecedented way of addressing the AIDS crisis and issues of censorship,... -
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194193Author Cynthia CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint < -
In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz by Amy Scholder 9780802136718
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called "an acute observer of the unmapped region... -
David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York Antonio Sergio Bessa 9788857254067
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $40.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857254067Author Antonio Sergio BessaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imp -
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront by Fiona Anderson
Booksplease Price: $41.67In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new... -
David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side by Sylvere Lotringer
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $27.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350354Author Sylvere LotringerFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint < -
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront by Fiona Anderson 9780226603612
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $123.90In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new... -
Low Rent: A Decade of Prose and Photographs from The Portable Lower East Side by Kurt Hollander 9780802134080
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.65Included in the anthology are writings by Ameena Meer, David Wojnarowicz, Hubert Selby Jr., Herbert Huncke, and Richard Hell, as well as photographs by Annie Sprinkle, Nan Goldin, and Robert Frank... -
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert 9781788168397
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White 'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times 'Brilliant' - Dazed 'As brutal as... -
What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy J. Fox
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $13.49What If We Were Somewhere Else is the question everyone asks in these linked stories as they try to figure out how to move on from job losses, broken relationships, and fractured families. Following... -
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing 9780393867398
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.65In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the... -
Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art Chloë Julius 9781526173188
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $84.38Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular... -
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline 9781643622712
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." -New York MagazineDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public... -
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern... -
<b>Art AIDS America / Art AIDS America Chicago Boxed Set</b> by Jonathan David Katz 9780295744636
RRP: $119.91Booksplease Price: $86.55This slipcased boxed set contains the two volumes: Art AIDS America, published in 2015 to coincide with the original exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, and the new book Art AIDS America Chicago. Art... -
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund White 9780299170745
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging,... -
United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow by Dan Glass
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.42Throughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of Britain. Inspired by the Stonewall uprisings in the US, the GLF demanded a... -
Best American Gay Fiction: v. 1 by Brian Bouldrey
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06Following the success of last year's debut volume, this Best American Gay Fiction collection broadens the range of contributors, styles, and genres. Here is outstanding new work by such well-known... -
Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display by Jennifer Tyburczy
Booksplease Price: $41.67All museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality-particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed-and... -
Best American Gay Fiction: Vol II by Brian Bouldrey 9780316102995
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06Following the success of last year's debut volume, this Best American Gay Fiction collection broadens the range of contributors, styles, and genres. Here is outstanding new work by such well-known... -
Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art Chloë Julius 9781526198181
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular... -
Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows by James A. Ganz 9781606068618
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $55.37Arthur Tress (b. 1940) is a singular figure in the landscape of postwar American photography. His seminal series, The Dream Collector, depicts Tress's interests in dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and... -
Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death by Andrew Wyeth
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $32.38Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth's late career and contemporary American art ... -
Art Essays: A Collection by Alexandra Kingston-Reese 9781609388119
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $26.03Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as... -
The Latest Winter by Maggie Nelson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' Olivia Laing In this, her second anthology of... -
Shiner by Maggie Nelson
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.41In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner... -
Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery by Cathleen Chaffee
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $51.17Eye on a Century celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a... -
Damage: Notes on a Queer Aesthetic Jonathan Alexander 9781531513160
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25.About the AuthorJonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He has published twenty-two books in the fields of... -
The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of... -
Pier Paolo Pasolini for Art History and Practice: Aesthetics and Politics Ara Merjian 9781526186140
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $116.24Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini's intermittent practice as a painter,... -
The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett 9781517911034
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $90.78A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of... -
The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest In America by Lauren O'Neill-Butler 9781804296363
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic... -
Unbecoming by Eric Michaels 9780822320050 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $10.71In 1982, the American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels went to Australia to research the impact of television on remote aboriginal communities. Over the next five years, until his death, he became a... -
Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection by Elizabeth Wyckoff 9783777438436
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $33.98The catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of... -
The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS by William Haver
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the...