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

by Jack Lowery

Book Overview

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. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1645036588
• ISBN13: 9781645036586
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.4"