Stone\s Throw
By David Deitcher
This multi-layered text describes the social, political, and personal context that framed the emergence of one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the late-20th century, Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Stone’s Throw attests to the importance of relationships forged throughout the most challenging years of the North American AIDS crisis, as Deitcher recounts his friendships with Gonzalez-Torres, with the activist curator Bill Olander, and the milieu to which they belonged.
Publisher: Secretary Press
Artists: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Contributors: David Deitcher
Designer: L + L
Printer: The Avery Group at Shapco Printing, Minneapolis
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in | 14.6 x 21 cm
Pages: 160
Reproductions: 46 color, 14 b&w
ISBN: 9780997120608
Retail: $28 | £22
Status: Available
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996) began his art studies at the University of Puerto Rico before moving to New York City in 1979, where he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, first in 1981 and again in 1983. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1983 and his MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987. From 1987 to 1991, Gonzalez-Torres was a part of the artist collective Group Material, whose collaborative, politically-informed practice focused on community engagement and activist interventions. Gonzalez-Torres died in 1996 from AIDS-related complications.
David Deitcher
Born in Montreal, Canada, David Deitcher is a writer, art historian, and critic whose essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Parkett, Village Voice, and other periodicals, as well as in numerous anthologies and monographs on such artists as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Isaac Julien, and Wolfgang Tillmans. He is the author of Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 (Abrams, 2001) and curator of its accompanying exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York. Since 2003, he has been core faculty at the International Center of Photography / Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies. He lives in New York City.