David O’Neill on “Dear Jean Pierre,” a book that documents the relationship and correspondence between the artist David Wojnarowicz and the actor Jean-Pierre Delage.
By then, Wojnarowicz was on his way to becoming a downtown New York art star. His renegade work in many media—including graffiti-inflected paintings on televisions and D.I.Y. papier-mâché—was heady, wild, and trashy, with imagery plucked from dreams as a way of bypassing the deadening conformity of what he called the “pre-invented world.
This lawless paradise became the heart of Wojnarowicz’s aesthetic and sexual life, but you’d never know it from his letters to Delage from that period, which are focussed on longing and the logistics of a reunion. In later years, Wojnarowicz was increasingly forced to defend his art against the Christian right.
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