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008			210818s2022 nyua e 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781645036586 _q(hardcover)
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092			_a362.1969 _bL917
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLowery, Jack _c(Writer), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIt was vulgar & it was beautiful : _bhow AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic / _cJack Lowery.
246	3		_aIt was vulgar and it was beautiful
246	3		_aHow AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBold Type Books, _c2022.
300			_avii, 422 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
500			_aIncludes index.
610	2	0	_aGran Fury (Artists' collective)
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _938758
650		0	_aAIDS activists.
650		0	_aCommunication in art.
650		0	_aArt _xPolitical aspects. _985570
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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