Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. vi, 305 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: The American sublime: living and dying as an artist, by Edmund White; Through the looking glass, by Sarah Schulman; After Peter, by Alexander Chee; Howard, art, and the seventies, by Brad Gooch; Where R U, John Crussell? Or, inventing humanity, one play at a time, by Randall Kenan; Self-portrait with rivals, by Herbert Muschamp; Corpses dancing, dancing ghosts, by David Gere; Who turned out the limelight? The tragi-comedy of Mark Morrisroe, by Ramsey McPhillips; Robert Ferro, by Felice Picano; Warren Sonbert, by Phillip Lopate; Prodigal son, by Benjamin Taylor; Chris DeBlasio, by William Berger; Remembrance of things past: Marc Lida's Proust watercolors, by Jonathan Weinberg; Trying to find words for things unspeakable, by Philip Yenawine; Bruce Kelly, landscape architect, by John Berendt; Fucked, by Craig Lucas; Two deaths, two lives, byJ. D. McClatchy; Scott Burton, by Robert Rosenblum; Robert Farber, by Patrick Moore; Homage to Joe, by Keith McDermott; The art of losing, by Andrew Solomon; James Merrill, by Allan Gurganus; The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, by Maya Angelou.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.