The Resource It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
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The item It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- "By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury was formed, to create graphics and media that campaigned against corporate greed, government inaction, and public indifference to AIDS. In It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful, writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism, from the iconic images like the SILENCE = DEATH graphic and the Kissing Doesn't Kill poster, to the act of dropping thousands of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a group that expressed through art the profound trauma of surviving the AIDS crisis and formed essential solidarities between gays and lesbians in the activist community. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are today employed by a variety of activist groups, including survivors of school shootings, harm reduction organizers, and activists for universal healthcare. Their belief in the power of art to create social change and drive political movements is illuminating in this era when violence and unending structural racism continue to target the most vulnerable"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 422 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781645036586
- Label
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
- Title
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful
- Title remainder
- how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
- Statement of responsibility
- Jack Lowery
- Title variation
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- It was vulgar and it was beautiful
- How AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury was formed, to create graphics and media that campaigned against corporate greed, government inaction, and public indifference to AIDS. In It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful, writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism, from the iconic images like the SILENCE = DEATH graphic and the Kissing Doesn't Kill poster, to the act of dropping thousands of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a group that expressed through art the profound trauma of surviving the AIDS crisis and formed essential solidarities between gays and lesbians in the activist community. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are today employed by a variety of activist groups, including survivors of school shootings, harm reduction organizers, and activists for universal healthcare. Their belief in the power of art to create social change and drive political movements is illuminating in this era when violence and unending structural racism continue to target the most vulnerable"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lowery, Jack
- Dewey number
- 362.19697/92
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA643.75
- LC item number
- .L69 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gran Fury (Artists' collective)
- AIDS (Disease)
- AIDS activists
- Communication in art
- Art
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 422 pages
- Isbn
- 9781645036586
- Lccn
- 2021031572
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1257292838
- (OCoLC)on1257292838
- Label
- It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic, Jack Lowery
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 422 pages
- Isbn
- 9781645036586
- Lccn
- 2021031572
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1257292838
- (OCoLC)on1257292838
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