Keith Haring - Couverture rigide

Doonan, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786277875 ISBN 13 : 9781786277879

Editeur : Laurence King Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational 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 propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Doonan is the author, TV personality and former creative director of Barneys of NYC. His many books include Drag: The Complete Story (2019) and How to Be Yourself: Life-Changing Advice from a Reckless Contrarian and Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed. His memoir Beautiful People was adapted for television by the BBC. Simon appears as a judge on the hit NBC television show Making It.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Part of the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the most popular artists

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Laurence King Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786277875
• ISBN 13: 9781786277879
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italie