The melancholia of AIDS: Interview with Douglas Crimp

Art Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 80-91

  Takemoto, Tina ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS   (United States)

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EID: 60950180274     PISSN: 00043249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00043249.2003.10792186     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Douglas Crimp, ed., AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, special issue of October 43 (Winter 1987)
2. republished as Douglas Crimp, ed., AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988).
3. Douglas Crimp with Adam Rolston, AIDS Demo Graphics (Seattle: Bay Press, 1990);
4. Douglas Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995);
5. and Douglas Crimp, Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002).
6. Bright Eyes, videocassette, directed by Stuart Marshall (Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1984);
7. Martha Gever, "Pictures of Sickness: Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes," in AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, 1988, 108-26;
8. Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).
9. Homo Video, curated by Bill Olander, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986;
10. Hal Foster, ed., Dia Art Foundation: Discussions in Contemporary Culture I (New York: New Press, 1987).
11. Testing the Limits, videocassette, directed by Testing the Limits (San Francisco: Frameline, 1987).
12. See Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003). See especially chapter 5, "AIDS Activism and Public Feelings: Documenting ACT UP's Lesbians," and chapter 6, "Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism: Mourning and Militancy Revisited."
13. Dr. Robert E. Gould, "Reassuring News about AIDS," Cosmopolitan 204, no. I (January 1988): 146-47.
14. See Paula Treichler, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999);
15. Cindy Patton, Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS (Boston: South End Press, 1985);
16. Simon Watney, Policing Desire.
17. See Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985)
18. and D. A. Miller, The Novel and the Police (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
19. Leo Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave?" in AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, 197-222.
20. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. I (New York: Pantheon, 1978).
21. See David M. Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
22. Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Boston: Beacon, 1966).
23. Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
24. and Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990).
25. Douglas Crimp, "Portraits of People with AIDS," in Melancholia and Moralism, 83-107;
26. first published in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler, (New York: Routledge, 1992), 117-33.
27. Erica Goode, "With Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message," New York Times, (August 19, 2001): final section, 1, 30.
28. Douglas Crimp, "Mourning and Militancy," in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson, et. al., (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), 233-45.
29. Fast Trip, Long Drop, videocassette, directed by Gregg Bordowitz (Chicago: Video Data Bank, 1993.)
30. Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia." in General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metaphysics (New York: Macmillan, 1963), 164-79.
31. Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s (New York: Doubleday, 1989).
32. Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987);
33. Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart (New York: New American Library, 1985);
34. Gabriel Rotello, "Sex Clubs Are the Killing Fields of AIDS," New York Newsday (April 28, 1994);
35. Michelangelo Signorile, "H.I.V.-Positive, and Careless," New York Times (February 26, 1995): E15;
36. and Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality (New York: Vintage, 1996).
37. Andrew Sullivan, "When Plagues End: Notes on the Twilight of the Epidemic." New York Times Magazine (November 10, 1996): 52-62, 76-77, 84.
38. Crimp, Melancholia and Moralism, 10.