Art Is Not Enough! The Artist's Body as Protest
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Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program
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Peer reviewed journal of communication, culture, and technology
Distinguishing between imagerial and material media, this paper will examine specific works by the artists David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Navarro, and Barton Lidice Benes that exemplify the powerful, political duality of the HIV-infected artist‘s body. I argue that the HIV-positive artists I discuss here reclaimed their political and artistic autonomy by turning their bodies into art and protest simultaneously
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/712582Date Published
2014Rights
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Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program
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