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Guide to the David Wojnarowicz Papers MSS.092


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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on October 13, 2021
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 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

Container List

Series V: Art Magazines and Catalogue Contributions, circa 1980s - 1990s

Arrangement

This series is arranged into four subseries: Subseries A: Contributions of Artwork to Art Magazines by Wojnarowicz; Subseries B: Articles by Wojnarowicz; Subseries C: Articles on Wojnarowicz in art magazines; and Subseries D: Misc. Articles and Mention.

Subseries A: Contributions of Artwork to Art Magazines by Wojnarowicz

Scope and Contents

This subseries contains Wojnarowicz images and motifs which appear in commercial publications, including Spin, The New Yorker, and Artforum.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 8 Folder : 1 Architectural Digest
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 2 Art in America July, 1988
 1988
Box: 8 Folder : 3 Artforum Summer 1993
 1993
Box: 8 Folder : 4 Artforum Sept. 1993
 1993
Box: 8 Folder : 5 Contemporary Art Contemporanea magazine November, 1990
 1990
Box: 8 Folder : 6 Horizon December, 1987
 1987
Box: 8 Folder : 7 Maandblad
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 8 New Yorker
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 9 Spin
 undated

Subseries B: Articles by Wojnarowicz

Scope and Contents

This subseries contains prose pieces by Wojnarowicz appearing in commercial publications.
Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 8 Folder : 10 Wojnarowicz "Spiral"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 11 Wojnarowicz "Being Queer in America"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 11A. Wojnarowicz "Losing the Form in Darkness"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 11B. Wojnarowicz with Doug Bressler "American Dreamtime"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 11C. Wojnarowicz "Man in Dark Sunglasses by the Silver Arc"
 undated

Subseries C: Articles on Wojnarowicz in Art Magazines

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of some 34 articles and essays discussing Wojnarowicz's career, work, and milieu.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 8 Folder : 11E. LD Berghtol, "In My Life," HX June, 1996
 1996
Box: 8 Folder : 12 Cindy Carr "Portrait of the Artist"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 13 Cindy Carr "Troubleshooters" Artforum September, 1990
 1990
Box: 8 Folder : 14 Lawrence Chua "David Wojnarowicz"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 15 Cone, Timothy "Art and the Law"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 16 David Deitcher "Ideas and Emotions"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 17 John Donahue "Flower Power"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 18 Mark Alice Durant "Sustained Rage in a Hostile Landscape"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 19 Brigitte Engler "Peinture et Guerre Civile"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 20 David Finkle "Postcards from America"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 21 Jurgen Fischer "Neue Heimat"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 22 Nichols Fox "NEA"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 23 Stephen Hager "From Street to Salon with David."
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 24 Howard Hampton "Public Enemies" Artforum, April, 1991
 1991
Box: 8 Folder : 25 Elizabeth Hess "Queer in Normal"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 26 Joe Jarrell "God is in the Details"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 27 Koch, Stephen "Warhol"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 28 Eric Latzky "Lip Service"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 29 Lucy Lippard "Out of the Safety Zone"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 30 Carlo McCormick "High Art"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 31 MOMA "Gathering Hope"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 32 Allan Parachini "Fighting Back"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 33 Stephen Perloff "A Censorship Diary"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 34 Sarah Pettit "The Arts"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 35 Howardena Pindella "Breaking the Silence"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 35 A. . Out , Issue 1, Summer 1992
 1992
Box: 8 Folder : 36 Calvin Reid "Beyond Mourning"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 37 Matthew Rose "David Wojnarowicz"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 38 David Rubin "Primary Structures"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 39 Jerry Saltz "Not Going Gentle"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 40 Peter Schjeldahl "Life Equals Noise"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 41 K. Schwartz "Continental."
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 42 Frank Wagner "David Wojnarowicz"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 43 Frank Wagner "Ubers Sofa!"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 44 Michelle Wallace "The Cave"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 45 Linda Yablonskaya "Covering the Slaughterfront"
 undated

Subseries D: Misc. Articles and Mentions

Scope and Contents note

This subseries contains approximately 20 mentions or references to Wojnarowicz in various commercial publications.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 8 Folder : 46 David Joselit "Power of Portraitist" [on Peter Hujar]
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 47 Frank Graziano "Alejandra Pizarnik"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 48 Mention-"High and Low."
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 49 Mention-"The Neo-Dealers"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 50 Mention-"Planet Ludlow"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 51 Mention-"Woman Behaving Badly"
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 52 Mention --- "Rough Draft of Journal Entries from the Sur Rodney Diary" [on Keith Davis]
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 52A. Mention-"Diane Plays Ball; Katie Plays for Laughs." Premiere Magazine.
 undated
Box: 8 Folder : 52B. Mention-"On the Waterfront" Out Magazine, 10/1997.
 1997
Box: 8 Folder : 52C. Mention-"A Living Testament of Blood Fairies: Part II" Art in America. 4/1997
 1997
Box: 8 Folder : 53D. Mention-Art in America, 11/1994
 1994
Box: 9 Folder : 53 C. Carr, Samuel R. Delany, James A. Baggett "Born in Flames"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 54 Peter Walsh "Call of the Wild"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 55 Mention --- "Simon Says"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 56 Michael Kimmelman "Art Club"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 57 Mention --- "The Aids Decade"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 58 Mention --- "Mix" ("One")
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 59 Herbert Reichert "Life & Death"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 60 Bill Arning " 'Fever' Dreams"
Box: 9 Folder : 61 Peter Von Ziegesar "(David) Wojnarowicz"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 62 Walter Robinson "Stray Genius"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 62A. Mention --- Jerome Charyn, "Metropolis"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 63 Mention --- "David Wojnarowicz Feature"
 undated
Box: 9 Folder : 64 Mention --- "An Artist with a Beef"
 undated

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