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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

• Bold Type Books • ISBN 9781645036609

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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

• Bold Type Books • ISBN-13 9781645036609

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ISBN 9781645036609 • Completeness 48

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By Jack Lowery The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant.

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Publisher: Bold Type Books
2024

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Contributor: Jack Lowery The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and comm

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Category: Aids ActivismCategory: Culture And TheoryCategory: Graphic Design HistoryCategory: Political ArtCategory: PublicationCategory: Queer StudiesCategory: Social Practice ArtCategory: Visual CommunicationCategory: Queer History

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