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Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront

Fiona Anderson

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Description:In the 1970s, the waterfront on the West side of Manhattan was a forgotten neighborhood, full of abandoned warehouses and disused piers. Though many who looked at the neighborhood saw nothing but blight, its derelict buildings and streets were alive with queer people forging new kinds of intimacies through cruising. And alongside those sexual and social worlds of the piers, ground-breaking artists produced work that attested to the radical transformations taking place in the city—and in American culture. The American artist and writer David Wojnarowicz was right in the heart of it, documenting his cruising experiences in journal entries, poems, photographs, films, and in large-scale, site-specific arts projects. In Cruising the Dead River, Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the key role the abandoned and decaying landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Making innovative use of archival ephemera and photographic fragments from this dynamic subculture, Cruising the Dead River examines how the ruined buildings that dominated the seemingly neglected riverfront assumed a powerful erotic role, giving the neighborhood a distinct sense of place and identity through the cruising that took place there. As Anderson shows, the work of artists such as Emily Roysdon, Peter Hujar, and Alvin Baltrop reflect an erotic connection between past and present inspired by the piers. The decay of the piers and the work they housed provide invaluable insight into the complex forces that reshaped the waterfront in this period as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis took hold. By telling the story of the piers, Anderson documents buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LGBTQ activism that developed in and around the cruising scene.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront. To get started finding Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the 1970s, the waterfront on the West side of Manhattan was a forgotten neighborhood, full of abandoned warehouses and disused piers. Though many who looked at the neighborhood saw nothing but blight, its derelict buildings and streets were alive with queer people forging new kinds of intimacies through cruising. And alongside those sexual and social worlds of the piers, ground-breaking artists produced work that attested to the radical transformations taking place in the city—and in American culture. The American artist and writer David Wojnarowicz was right in the heart of it, documenting his cruising experiences in journal entries, poems, photographs, films, and in large-scale, site-specific arts projects. In Cruising the Dead River, Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the key role the abandoned and decaying landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Making innovative use of archival ephemera and photographic fragments from this dynamic subculture, Cruising the Dead River examines how the ruined buildings that dominated the seemingly neglected riverfront assumed a powerful erotic role, giving the neighborhood a distinct sense of place and identity through the cruising that took place there. As Anderson shows, the work of artists such as Emily Roysdon, Peter Hujar, and Alvin Baltrop reflect an erotic connection between past and present inspired by the piers. The decay of the piers and the work they housed provide invaluable insight into the complex forces that reshaped the waterfront in this period as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis took hold. By telling the story of the piers, Anderson documents buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LGBTQ activism that developed in and around the cruising scene.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront. To get started finding Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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