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Close to the knives audiobook by david wojnarowicz. October, 2018 imagine a beach where everyone milling about on the sand is a great artist of this generation, known or unknown, and then all at once an immense tidal wave, perhaps a tsunami, rises up and crashes on the beach and half of them or more are gone in. David wojnarowicz 1980s1991 david wojnarowicz september 14, 1954 july 22, 1992 was a painted, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the new york city art world of the 1980s. Close to the knives a memoir of disintegration by david wojnarowicz paperback 9781786890276 published by canongate 2 march 2017. David wojnarowiczs brief but eventful life was not easy. Close to the knives a memoir of disintegration by david. David wojnarowicz first became widely known during the brief vogue of the east village art scene in the 1980s, but he distinguished himself from his contemporaries with the seriousness of his literary interests and the depth of his rage. Filthy, beautiful, and sharp to the point of piercing, it is both an exploration of the world seen through the eyes of an artist, and a moving portrait of a generation living. He incorporated personal narratives affected by both his struggle with aids as well as his political activism. Close to the knives is a perennially relevant collection of intelligent, searing, and poetic essays that range from davids teenage years on the streets of new york, working as an artist, taking a solo road trip across the country, gay life in the 1980s. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, aids, politics, friendship and acceptance. This is a book sublime in poetry, fierce in outrage. Protection, as wide as the horizon, thats what we can offer each other.
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