Keith Haring (Lives of the Artists) | Hardcover

Keith Haring (Lives of the Artists) is a biography on the life of the artist examining his inspiration story.

Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols – barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people – which became synonymous with the volatile culture of 1980s. Like a careening, preening pinball, Keith Haring playfully slammed into all aspects of this decade – hip-hop, new-wave, graffiti, funk, art, style, gay culture – and brought them together.

Haring's fanatical drive propelled him into the orbit of the most interesting people of his time: Jean Michel Basquiat envied him; Warhol, William Boroughs and Grace Jones collaborated with him. Madonna and he shared the same tastes in men. Famous at 25, dead from AIDS at 31, Keith Haring is remembered as a Pied Piper, an unpretentious communicator who appeared happiest when mentoring a gang of kids, arming them with brushes and attacking the nearest wall.

A series of brief biographies of the great artists, Lives of the Artists takes as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key artists past and present. Focusing on the life of the artist rather than examining their work, each book also includes key images illustrating the artist's life. Hardbound, but pocket-sized, the books each sport a specially-commissioned portrait of their subject on the half-jacket.

• A hardback copy of Keith Haring (Lives of the Artists) | Hardcover Book
• Author: Doonan, Simon
• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing; 1st edition
• Format: Hardback
• Publication Date: 10/02/2021
• ISBN: 978-1786277879
• Illustrated: Colour illustrations
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions: 12.57x1.91x18.67cm

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