Keith Haring
Subtitle: the political line
By: edited by Dieter Buchhart, with contributions by Julian Cox [and others]
Contributors: Buchhart, Dieter, 1971-; Cox, Julian; Haring, Keith; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Edition: [English language edition].
Publisher: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9783791354101; 9783791365732
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) and art; Art; Exhibitions; Street art; American Drawing; Gay artists
Description: "Exuberant, profane, witty, and provocative, the images in this book reveal the political dimension of Keith Haring's artistic concerns. Through his graffiti-inspired drawings, paintings, sculptures, murals, and other works, Keith Haring created an immediately recognizable visual iconography that spoke to an enormous population--gay and straight, young and old, male and female. His importance in the annals of popular culture is indisputable, but little attention has been paid to his advocacy for social justice. Haring's political perspective is the focus of this visually arresting selection of works that traces the artist's development and historical significance and gives new gravitas to his career. Accompanying a major exhibition at the de Young museum in San Francisco, this book features more than 130 works of art, including large-scale paintings on tarpaulin and canvas, sculptures, and subway drawings. Together they create a narrative that explores Haring's responses to nuclear disarmament, racial inequality, capitalist excess, environmental degradation, and other prevalent social issues. Essays and conversations with writers, critics, and art dealers round out this important analysis of Haring's life, career, and passion"--
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition presented at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, November 8, 2014–February 16, 2015.

A similar exhibition was presented in Paris, France, by the Paris-Musées, from April to August 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The endless political line / Dieter Buchhart; title: A note on the art and life of Keith Haring / Robert Farris Thompson; title: A conversation between Julia Gruen and Glenn O'Brien; title: Keith Haring : urban fragments / Julian Myers-Szupinska; title: A conversation with Tony Shafrazi and Carlo McCormick; title: Plates; title: Chronology / Giorgio Verzotti.