It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful
How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
The artists of Gran Fury turned ACT UP's rage into posters a city could not ignore.
Gran Fury was the art collective that came out of ACT UP and produced the images that defined AIDS activism: the SILENCE=DEATH pink triangle, the kissing couples on New York buses, the bus shelter reading KISSING DOESN’T KILL. Lowery draws on interviews and the group’s archives to show how a handful of designers and artists built a visual language urgent enough to force a public health emergency into view.
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Drawing on interviews and archives, Lowery shows how artists and activists banded together to fight two plagues
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