The many fictions of David Wojnarowicz, chronicled in a new biography:
In Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, Cynthia Carr explores the tumultuous career of one of the 1980s' most arresting artists.
Bio: Ryann Liebenthal is an assistant editor at Harper's Magazine.
By February of 1985, the year two of his paintings were included in the Whitney Biennial, a New York Times reporter called him "the hottest among hot East Village artists." But, after having spent so long resenting the successes of his peers, his own acclaim mysteriously depressed him, and he was incensed by the idea that collectors were snapping up Wojnarowiczes just for the name, without any concern for the meaning of his work. "His attitude led him into a certain amount of self-sabotage," Carr writes. "He could not walk easily into his success." More
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