Can art save lives?
Not directly. But it can help the rest of us live.
From Media to Metaphor: Art About Aids chronicles the visual conversation in which artists reflected on the AIDS epidemic in 1993 during the height of the deepening and ongoing catastrophe. Bound by a green and copper prismatic cover, the exhibition catalogue includes a dialogue between Robert Atkins and Thomas W. Sokolowski on the art world's role in invoking the American psyche of the time, a pop-out timeline of the AIDS crisis, and full-page renditions and descriptions of works by dozens of artists from the groundbreaking exhibition.
Featured artists: (art)n, Ross Bleckner, Kathe Burkhart, Nancy Burson, Steven Evans, Gran Fury, General Idea, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Keith Haring, Max (Torque) = Doug [(Bruno) Hammett], Rudy Lemke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Marcus, Duane Michaels, Donald Moffett, Frank Moore, Ellen B. Neipris, Diane Neumaier, Nicholas and Bebe Nixon, Gypsy Ray, Rod Rhodes, Jane Rosett, John Sapp, Dui Sied, Jo Shane, Masami Teraoka, Kathy Vargas, Video Data Bank, Visual Aids Artists Caucus, Brian Well, David Wojnarowicz, Thomas Woodruff
Atkins, Robert and Sokolowski, Tom, From Media to Metaphor: Art About Aids, Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, 1992. 72 Pages, 11.7 x 7 inches, softcover. ISBN: 0916365344
