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Product information "The Wonderful World that Almost Was"

The work of photographer Peter Hujar defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Thek was an American sculptor and painter. Hujar and Thek met in 1956 and shared a strong intellectual and artistic connection that influenced the work of both artists. The Wonderful World That Almost Was follows the development of the intense friendship - and romance - between them, from their first encounter in Miami to the painful end of their friendship in the mid-1970s. It was during that period that Hujar and Thek produced some of their most famous and significant works, and this biography traces the ways in which these artists' work directly and indirectly influenced both one another and the wider cultural sphere, and features the large circle of friends and artists they shared, from Andy Warhol and Fran Lebowitz, to Susan Sontag and David Wojnarowicz.

Subtitle
A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

H | W | D | g
241 mm | 161 mm | 46 mm | 760 gr

Publication year
2026

Age rating
0

Edition
Hardcover

Publisher
Granta Books

ISBN-10
180351213X

Author
Durbin, Andrew

Language
Englisch

Page Count
496

Topics
Kunst: allgemeine Themen, Kunstgeschichte, Einzelne Fotografen, Einzelne Architekten und Architekturbüros, Einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung

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