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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lowery, Jack (Writer), author.     Subjects     Gran Fury (Artists' collective)     AIDS (Disease)     AIDS activists.     Communication in art.     Art -- Political aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lowery, Jack (Writer), author.       by title:      It was vulgar & it w...         MARC Display

It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic / Jack Lowery. by Lowery, Jack (Writer), author. New York : Bold Type Books, 2022. Subjects Gran Fury (Artists' collective)   AIDS (Disease)   AIDS activists.   Communication in art.   Art -- Political aspects. ISBN:  9781645036586 (hardcover) : 1645036588 (hardcover) Description:  vii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: another kind of propaganda -- Out of silence -- Off the wall -- Collectivity -- False starts -- Seeing red -- All the news fit to print -- Power tools -- Censurato -- Recognition -- Fallout -- The elegy -- Imperfect endings -- Afterglow -- Epilogue: an actual end. Requests:  0 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"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.19697 Lo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.19697 Lo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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