Drawing On Walls: A Story of Keith Haring is gorgeous and deeply inspiring…this large padded hardcover book is beautifully constructed and illustrated with a thoughtfully told story. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of anvases.

Haring had a desire to make his artwork available to as wide an audience as possible and was instrumental in inspiring a new generation of street-to-gallery artists. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.Forty years after he came to prominence, Haring’s art continues to garner worldwide recognition, breaking down barriers and spreading joy, while taking on complex issues that remain crucial today, from environmentalism, capitalism, and the proliferation of new technologies to religion, sexuality, and race. Lavishly illustrated with essays and reflections by cultural leaders, Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody surveys Haring’s dynamic art practice from 1978 to 1990, shining a bright light on the iconic and beloved artist known for his fluid, uniform lines, intricate compositions and repeating imagery such as the barking dog and radiant baby.

Like other bios of artists written for children, Burgess and Cochran’s consideration of Keith Haring could easily have explained with hoity-toity words why all good little children should know the man’s work. Featuring around fifty works supported by rarely seen photography, film and archival documents from the Keith Haring Foundation, this book will not only introduce Haring to a new audience but also throw fresh light on an artist whose work remains symptomatic of the subcultural and creative energy of 1980s New York. Published soon after the artist’s death in 1990 at the age of 31 of an Aids-related illness, this biography tells the story of Haring’s life and career through reflections by the artist himself, his family and friends, and many of the people who knew him, from artist Roy Lichtenstein and the psychologist and psychedelics-advocate Timothy Leary, to pop star Madonna and beat poet William Burroughs. MP22 The first printing (with the 1981 date) of Haring's rare first book which introduced all his best known icons including the crawling baby and the barking dog. Tracing the arc from his early subway "tags" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS illiteracy and apartheid this visually stunning book is the definitive work on Keith Haring.From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones this book follows the incredible trajectory of Keith Haring's artistic career: how a young man from a small town in rural Pennsylvania came to revolutionize the art world and the course of art history within little more than a decade. A smaller-scaled version of this book would be issued in 1982 "Funded by Appearances Magazine / Brooke Alexander Inc. First edition, first printing; 8vo; single quire, wire-stitched in white card, Haring designed wrappers printed in black. The journals give key insight into Haring’s life and work, writing about his thinking throughout the years, from just before he moved to New York through to the end of his life. Author Burgess and illustrator Cochran show how generous a person he was, and how children played a central part in his life and work.

She adds that a new biography by Brad Gooch is due to be published next year, which will leave “no stone unturned”. We hear how graffiti artists and DJs became inspirations to him; we meet Madonna, the B52s, Arthur Russell, Grace Jones and Jean-Michel Basquiat; and then themid-80s AIDS epidemic changes everything. Packed with key cultural reference points as well as the artist’s own reflections, this graphic biography makes for compulsive, eyeopening reading.Keith Haring Journals a brilliant account of Haring’s life and observations, told through the voice of the artist himself (Penguin, ISBN 0143105973). key social and political events of the 1980s (from the election of Reagan in 1980 and the explosion of hip hop from underground movement to global phenomenon to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989) and Haring’s responses to them. Haring’s iconic pop art and graffiti-like style transformed the New York City underground art scene in the 1980s.

The catalogue accompanying the show includes essays and conversations with the artist’s friends and contemporaries, providing “new perspectives on Haring’s work”, says the curator Sarah Loyer. staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed First edition of Keith Haring's first artist's book. Nina's Book of Little Things showcases the internationally celebrated artist Keith Haring at his brilliant best. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. It reproduces twenty whimsical full page drawings in thick black line against white backgrounds meant to be filled in with crayon.The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance, with moderate shelf-wear at the base of the boards. His work reflected a profound commitment to social justice and activism, raising issues that remain relevant today, including the AIDS crisis, racism, and environmental degradation. Estoy construyendo mi biblioteca y La serie Basic Art es genial porque provee con toda la información basica de los grandes artistas de la historia en una edición cuidada y preciosa.