Art AIDS America is the first comprehensive overview and
reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic
in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in
shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual
foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently
political and autobiographical voice. Art AIDS America surveys more
than 100 works of American art from the early 1980s to the present,
reintroducing and exploring the whole spectrum of artistic responses to
HIV/AIDS, from in-your-face activism to quiet elegy.