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Guide to the David Wojnarowicz Papers MSS.092


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Collection processed by Marvin J. Taylor

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on October 13, 2021
Description is in English. using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

 Updated by Jacqueline Rider to reflect incorporation of video preservation master and sub-master files Updated by Megan O'Shea to add seven items and prepare 24 others for a move to offsite art storage in September 2017 Updated by Megan O'Shea to incorporate items treated and rehoused by Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department staff Updated by Megan O'Shea to prepare artwork being sent to offsite art storage in December 2017 Updated by Weatherly Stephan to note deaccessions Updated by Kelly Haydon to incorporate new digital access copies of materials from Series VIII, Subseries C: Sound Materials Updated by Anna McCormick to remove obsolete links.  Edited by Amy C. Vo to revise harmful language regarding suicide and addiction Updated by Anna Björnsson McCormick to note context between art objects.  Updated by Weatherly Stephan to reflect rehousing of objects in Series XIII  , March 2017 , August 2017 , November 2017 , December 2017 , June 2018 , May 2019 , January 2020 , April 2021 , July 2021 , October 2021

Access Points

Subject Names

  • Praunheim, Rosa von, 1942-
  • Atlas, Charles
  • Wojnarowicz, David
  • Cooper, Dennis, 1953-
  • Hujar, Peter, 1934-1987
  • Indiana, Gary
  • Kern, Richard, 1954-

Document Type

  • Manuscripts for publication.
  • T-shirts
  • Character toys.
  • Correspondence.
  • Beads and sets of beads.
  • Celestial globes.
  • Photographs.
  • Negatives (photographic)
  • Figurines.
  • Poetry.
  • Handguns (small arms)
  • Kachina dolls.
  • Logs (records)
  • Masks (costume)
  • Crosses (motifs)
  • Reviews (document genre)
  • Videocassettes.
  • Diaries
  • Audiotapes.
  • Scripts (documents)
  • Religious objects.
  • Coins (money).
  • Super 8
  • Notes.
  • 16mm
  • Clippings (information artifacts)

Subject Topics

  • Photographers -- United States.
  • Photography, Abstract
  • Amateur films -- Production and direction.
  • Avant-garde films.
  • Artists and community -- United States
  • AIDS (Disease) -x Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
  • Downtown writers.
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
  • Avant-garde poetry.
  • Avant-garde literature.
  • Experimental theater
  • Photography, Artistic.
  • Photography |v Exhibitions.
  • Photographers -- United States -x Biography.
  • Photography -- United States.

Subject Places

  • New York (N.Y.).
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.