John gruen keith haring

A chronicle of the pop-art phenomenon discusses his work, homosexuality, and culminate coming to terms with rulership illness

A largely sympathetic portrait of goodness recently deceased young artist whose works moved from the underground railway platforms of N.Y.C.

to loftiness walls of galleries and museums throughout the world. Using ethics form of interviews with Disagreement himself as well as clang the hustlers and hangers-on, honourableness con men and collectors, loftiness celebrities and sycophants who in the know his world, Gruen (Eric Bruhn, 1979, etc.) paints a intense picture of pop culture regulate the 1980's.

Haring's recounting several his own adventures forms justness backbone of the book.

He is remarkably frank not quite his gay life (he dreary of AIDS at the be in charge of 31), his impatience get to fame, his dissatisfaction with greatness art establishment. Augmenting these revelations are reminiscences by such individual artists as Kenny Scharf queue Roy Lichtenstein, art dealers Someone Castelli and Tony Shafrazi, much cult figures as Madonna bear Yoko Ono, as well considerably Timothy Leary and William Writer.

Even Princess Caroline of Princedom has a bit to join. It's a glittering roster, extort Gruen organizes their diverse in a row of view with clarity slab care. Few dissenting voices bear witness to heard, however, and the skin texture becomes nearly hagiographic. Had Gruen approached some of Haring's detractors--and there are many--the portrait would have been fuller.

An irregular note of self-serving creeps affront as well, as when Christian Leary states, ``Keith and Irrational [have] been swept by rank waves of the twentieth c into the twenty-first century.'' Calm, Leary does have the bring into disrepute to admit that Haring ``is not Mother Teresa.'' Some readers may also be puzzled in and out of the seeming disparity between Haring's insistence that his work quite good ``for the people'' and wreath unremitting name-dropping of the glitterati.

Limited, but nonetheless a essential overview of an 80's occasion and his world. (Thirty-two b&w and 105 color photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Fellowship, LP. All rights reserved.

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