Douglas Crimp

Douglas Crimp ( born August 18, 1944) is an American sociologist of art, art critic and AIDS activist from New York City. He is a member of Queer Theory.

Life

From 1962 to 1967 he lived and studied Crimp in New Orleans. After a short stay in New York City in 1967, he moved a year later permanently in the city. He worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and worked as a freelance art critic. In 1976 he continued his studies that he completed after further interruptions in 1980 with a PhD. From 1977 to 1990 he was co-editor of the art journal October. The he alone was responsible for issue on AIDS ( 1987) is still regarded as trend-setting in the discussion on the subject. Crimp has taught since 1992 at the University of Rochester in New York.

Topics

Crimp deals critically with the institution of the museum and the work of the artist and the art critic. Particularly intense, he worked on the creation and reception of Andy Warhol. Another main topic is the way society deals and the representation of AIDS.

Writings (selection )

English

• AIDS: Cultural Analysis / Cultural Activism, MIT Press, 1988
• AIDS Demo Graphics ( with Adam Rolston ), Seattle: Bay Press, 1990
• On the Museum 's Ruins, MIT Press, 1993
• Melancholia and moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, MIT Press, 2002

German

• About the ruins of the museum. The museum, photography and postmodernism, with photographs by Louise Lawler, Publishing House of Art Dresden, 1996, ISBN 3-364-00328-9