"David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, the longing for love, and sexuality in the specter of AIDS in Memories that Smell like Gasoline. Memory drawings, ten cartoon/comic narratives; ink paintings of 3rd avenue movie houses (before health dep't closures 1988-1989), ten diaristic studies; and dream-like memoirs reenact episodes from the artist's life in a sometimes devastating, always sublime document about coming of age in America." -- publisher's statement.