IT WAS VULGAR & IT WAS AttractiveHow AIDS Activists Made use of Art to Combat a PandemicBy Jack LoweryIllustrated. 422 pages. Bold Kind Textbooks. $35. The revolution would not be televised, but slathered with wheat paste. Do not underestimate the significance of this starchy makeshift adhesive in the history of AIDS awareness — back again when a “poster” was not someone composing anonymous feedback on line but community relations on paper, in the real town square. As described in Jack Lowery’s new reserve, “It Was Vulgar & It Was Attractive,” wheat paste was a thing like a holy compound for activists, enabling the circulation of their righteously angry artwork. They…