Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
4to. pp. 96. profusely illustrated. hardcover boards. dw. Koln: Taschen, 2009.
New in publisher's shrink wrap.
ISBN-10: 3836512564 / ISBN-13: 9783836512565
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By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring’s original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In 1986, Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York’s SoHo selling Haring-designed memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his work closer to the public and especially street kids, with whom he never lost contact.