Keith Haring (Rizzoli Classics)

Keith Haring gathers the fullest published account of the artist's decade-long career, developed from a book concept Haring had begun sketching out before his death in 1990.

Across 528 pages, the volume draws on more than ten years of research into Haring's archive, reproducing drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries alongside finished work. It follows his trajectory from chalk drawings made in New York's subway system through murals in Pisa and Berlin, his body painting of Grace Jones, and his engagement with AIDS activism, illiteracy, and apartheid. This edition reissues Rizzoli's 2008 monograph in the publisher's compact Rizzoli Classics series.

Keith Haring (1958-1990) moved from unsanctioned subway drawings in the early 1980s to a practice that spanned murals, sculpture, and design, using a graphic vocabulary of radiant babies, barking dogs, and dancing figures to address social and political subjects directly. Julia Gruen, a former studio assistant, has directed the Keith Haring Foundation since Haring's death, and Jeffrey Deitch has represented the estate; both worked from Haring's own outline for the book this monograph completes.