He also dives into the collective's inception and their internal squabbles, relationships, losses, and eventual rise to fame with galleries in the art world. Lowry not only discusses and fully explores the intent of the notorious posters that were wheat-pasted on buildings around New York City during the peak of the ACT UP's heyday amid the AIDS crisis. In 'It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic' (Bold Type Books), writer and scholar Jack Lowery fully explores the history of Gran Fury, the activist-artist collective that cleverly incorporated advertising style into activist agitprop in the late 1980s and early '90s.
