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Category Archives: AIDS
LIBRARY SHELF: Blue
Jarman, Derek Blue: Das Buch zum Film (1993) LAST LINE: “I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave.” ICI SHELF: London ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-03-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Bodies of Resistance
Visual AIDS Bodies of Resistance (2000) LAST LINE: “…we are faced with an experience of AIDS which can only be called ongoing.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-01-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Share Your Vision
Visual AIDS Share Your Vision (2000) LAST LINE: “Maybe here and now, or in the future, you too will also let the work speak first.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-29-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: The Cholera Years
Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years (1962) FIRST LINE: “It had been an unhealthy winter and the dry spring promised a sickly summer.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-27-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Muses from Chaos and Ash
Vaucher, Andrea R. Muses from Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists, and Art (1993) FIRST LINE: “I was driving up to Woodstock to visit my friend Kenny O’Brien.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-25-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: A Leap In the Dark
Klusacek, Allan and Morrison, Ken A Leap in the Dark (1992) FIRST LINE: “AIDS is a focal point for many of the social ills that plague modern society…” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-23-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: The Plague
Camus, Albert The Plague (1948) LAST LINE: “…for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Close to the Knives
LIBRARY SHELF: Tangled Memories
Sturken, Marita Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997) LAST LINE: “They stand at the juncture of memory and history, tugging by their very presence the boundaries of each.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI … Continue reading
Original AIDS Ribbon
The original red ribbon created in 1991 to recognize people living with HIV and AIDS along with their caretakers. It was created by the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in a collaborative gesture although sometimes Frank Moore, a painter who subsequently … Continue reading


