Name: The Wonderful World that Almost Was. A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
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Author: Andrew Durbin
ISBN: 9781803512136

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The Wonderful World that Almost Was. A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Granta Books

Author

Andrew Durbin

Year

2026

Pages

496

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.40 x 15.60 cm

ISBN13

9781803512136

The Wonderful World that Almost Was. A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Andrew Durbin (Author) · Granta Books · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Wonderful World that Almost Was. A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek"

The work of photographer Peter Hujar defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Thek was an American sculptor and painter. Hujar and Thek met in 1956 and shared a strong intellectual and artistic connection that influenced the work of both artists. The Wonderful World That Almost Was follows the development of the intense friendship - and romance - between them, from their first encounter in Miami to the painful end of their friendship in the mid-1970s. It was during that period that Hujar and Thek produced some of their most famous and significant works, and this biography traces the ways in which these artists' work directly and indirectly influenced both one another and the wider cultural sphere, and features the large circle of friends and artists they shared, from Andy Warhol and Fran Lebowitz, to Susan Sontag and David Wojnarowicz.