De l'âge de 19 ans jusqu'à sa mort du sida en 1990, à 31 ans, Keith Haring a consigné dans ses carnets ses réflexions sur son travail, son succès commercial, ses rencontres, son homosexualité, ses lectures, et sur ses contemporains. Icône du Pop Art, internationalement reconnu à 24 ans, Haring savait que ses journaux seraient un jour publiés. Certains textes trahissent cette conscience de soi juvénile. Ses déclarations sans détour aident en particulier à comprendre la sexualité qui imprègne son art. Elles en disent long sur son esthétique, sa créativité, ses méthodes de travail, sa compétition avec les autres artistes, son ouverture aux expériences nouvelles, son amour des enfants, son dévouement à ses amis et sa lutte acharnée contre la maladie.Les textes sont classés par année.Une introduction élogieuse de l'historien de l'art Robert Farris Thompson (Yale) met son oeuvre en contexte.
Haring as activist and egalitarian: a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York's most exhilarating artists.
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. 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.
Titled after a quote from Haring's journals, Art Is for Everybody centers on the artist's activism, the emphasis he placed on community and his egalitarian approach to art and life. The volume is organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Haring's work made with publics in mind such as the subway drawings and murals, his collaborative practice and his unflinching belief that art is essential in making a better world.
Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958 and arrived in New York from Pittsburgh in 1978, befriending artists including Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. During the 1980s, Haring achieved international recognition and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. After being diagnosed with HIV in 1988, he focused his activism on the AIDS crisis. Less than two years later, Haring died of an AIDS-related illness.
À l'origine, un cadeau de Keith Haring à Nina, la fille d'un de ses amis pour son 7e anniversaire. La version que nous proposons est l'exacte réplique de l'original devenu un best-seller international. Keith Haring lui-même nous en donne le mode d'emploi : « Ce livre sert à conserver les petites choses. Les petites choses qui t'appartiennent. Celles que tu découvres ou que tu collectionnes, les choses que tu fabriques, celles que tu dessines, les choses que les gens t'offrent, les choses que tu veux garder dans ce livre, mais surtout les PETITES choses. Si tu veux collectionner des choses de grande taille, alors procure-toi une boîte. » Sans y paraître l'invitation de Keith Haring est une forme d'initiation à l'art, comme s'il nous livrait sa manière de regarder ce qui l'entoure.
Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon.
