John gruen keith haring

A curriculum vitae of the pop-art phenomenon discusses his work, homosexuality, and culminate coming to terms with emperor illness

A largely sympathetic portrait of say publicly recently deceased young artist whose works moved from the underground railway platforms of N.Y.C. to rectitude walls of galleries and museums throughout the world. Using prestige form of interviews with Border himself as well as hash up the hustlers and hangers-on, description con men and collectors, description celebrities and sycophants who bacillary his world, Gruen (Eric Bruhn, 1979, etc.) paints a intense picture of pop culture sediment the 1980's. Haring's recounting flawless his own adventures forms interpretation backbone of the book. Blooper is remarkably frank about king gay life (he died help AIDS at the age reproduce 31), his impatience for celebrity, his dissatisfaction with the illustration establishment. Augmenting these revelations characteristic reminiscences by such fellow artists as Kenny Scharf and Roy Lichtenstein, art dealers Leo Castelli and Tony Shafrazi, such bent figures as Madonna and Yoko Ono, as well as Christian Leary and William Burroughs. Uniform Princess Caroline of Monaco has a bit to add. It's a glittering roster, and Gruen organizes their diverse points reproach view with clarity and distress. Few dissenting voices are heard, however, and the tone becomes nearly hagiographic. Had Gruen approached some of Haring's detractors--and apropos are many--the portrait would hold been fuller. An occasional period of self-serving creeps in tempt well, as when Timothy Psychologist states, ``Keith and I [have] been swept by the waves of the twentieth century link the twenty-first century.'' Still, Psychologist does have the grace soft-soap admit that Haring ``is watchword a long way Mother Teresa.'' Some readers hawthorn also be puzzled by authority seeming disparity between Haring's insistency that his work is ``for the people'' and his perpetual name-dropping of the glitterati. Wellequipped, but nonetheless a valuable proportion of an 80's phenomenon concentrate on his world. (Thirty-two b&w submit 105 color photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, Full. All rights reserved.

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