I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s

by Peter McGough

Book Overview

A memoir of New York in the 1980s and 1990s--a time of both enormous creativity and decadence--told by an artist who was at the center of it all, including the AIDS epidemic, and survived to tell the story.

Peter McGough--half of the team of McDermott & McGough, artists known for their painting, photography, sculpture, and film--writes about the trauma of growing up gay in 1950s suburbia; about the East Village art scene of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524747041
• ISBN13: 9781524747046
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.1"