David Wojnarowicz

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born

September 14, 1954 in Red Bank, NJ, The United States

died

July 22, 1992

gender

male

website

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Gay & Lesbian, Arts & Photography, Nonfiction

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David Wojnarowicz was a gay painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.

He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and later lived with his mother in New York City, where he attended the High School of Performing Arts for a brief period. From 1970 until 1973, after dropping out of school, he for a time lived on the streets of New York City and worked as a farmer on the Canadian border.

Upon returning to New York City, he saw a particularly prolific period for his artwork from the late 1970s through the 1980s. During this period, he made super-8 films, such as Heroin, began a photographic series of Arthur Rimbaud, did stencil work, played in a band called 3...more

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Average rating: 4.33 · 866 ratings · 93 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration 4.42 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz by David Wojnarowicz, Amy Scholder (editor) 4.28 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Memories That Smell Like Gasoline 4.39 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The Waterfront Journals 4.09 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Brush Fires in the Social Landscape by David Wojnarowicz, Lucy R. Lippard 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Seven Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz, J. Romberger (Illustrator) 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	7 Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger (Illustrator), Marguerit Van Cook (Ink or Color) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Sounds In The Distance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Au Bord Du Gouffre: Mémoires D'une Désagrégation: Récit 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Chroniques Des Quais by David Wojnarowicz, Laurence Viallet (Traduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by David Wojnarowicz

“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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“I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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“ Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form: my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat. But I’m fucking empty. The person I was just one year ago no longer exists, drifts spinning slowly into the ether somewhere way back there.”
― David Wojnarowicz

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