Dan Cameron

A central figure in New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, Wojnarowicz was a painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, installation artist, musician, and video- and filmmaker. After being diagnosed as HIV-positive in the late 1980s, Wojnarowicz engaged in widely publicized debates over medical research and funding, censorship in the arts, and politically-sanctioned homophobia, lending his art a sharply political edge. The last few years of his life were an intense flurry of activity show more in a variety of mediums, fueled by rage and alienation that helped set the tone for contemporary art's exploration of social and private identities. show less

This is slightly outside the limits of my collection as the quilts do not illustrate the book, the book illustrates the quilts. The text covers Ringgold's life and work and details the creative process relating to the quilts. I included it in this collection because of Ringgold's TAR BEACH

This first monograph on Douglas Bourgeois publishes the fascinating work of a figurative artist whose meticulously detailed paintings and sculptural assemblages present icons of popular culture as well as everyday people from Louisiana's diverse population

Dan Cameron, Okwui Enwezor, Isabelle Graw, Katharina Grosse, Louise Neri