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Record Nr.

UNINA9910734341603321

Titolo

Remembering the AIDS quilt / / edited by Charles E. Morris III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan, : Michigan State University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-62895-157-5

1-60917-229-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Altri autori (Persone)

MorrisCharles E. <1969->

Disciplina

362.196/979200973

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) and the arts

Social movements

Community arts projects

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Emergence -- pt. 2. Movement -- pt. 3. Transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

A collaborative creation unlike any other, the Names Project Foundation's AIDS Memorial Quilt has played an invaluable role in shattering the silence and stigma that surrounded the epidemic in the first years of its existence. Designed by Cleve Jones, the AIDS Quilt is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Since its conception in 1987, the Quilt has transformed the cultural and political responses to AIDS in the U.S. Representative of both marginalized and mainstream peoples, the Quilt contains crucial material and symbolic implications for mourning the dead, and the