Author(s): Alexandra Kolossa
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 96
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Language: English
Date Published: 2016-07-13
Dimensions: 210 x 260 x 12.7mm
Publication City/Country: Cologne, Germany
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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.