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Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases. From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic death, the trajectory of Keith Haring's life is a story of incredible achievement, luck, opportunity, and extraordinary commitment. This graphic novel looks at every stage of that life, exploring his early influences, the roots of his activism, and his close friendships with other artist contemporaries. It shows readers what it was like to be part of New York City's vibrant downtown art scene in the 1980s--the nightclubs, art openings, the rise of hip-hop--and how world events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall; the escalation of the nuclear arms race; apartheid; and the dawn of the climate crisis played into his work. They'll learn how Haring's own battle with AIDS fueled his advocacy for education and research, and they'll get to know the figures who were most influential to his work-- from Warhol to Basquiat, Fab Five Freddy to Madonna. Packed with key cultural reference points as well as the artist's own reflections, this graphic biography makes for compulsive, eye- opening reading.… (más)
Another of those graphic biographies that assumes the reader already has knowledge of the subject and skitters through his life hitting high points that are largely left out of context. I was unfamiliar with Keith Haring's name and work going into this and feel I now know barely a little more than if I just read a Wikipedia entry.
Which raises, the next point: If you are doing a biography of an artist and cannot secure rights to actually show his artwork, it may be time to consider doing a different book instead. This book is like sitting through an Elvis biopic that cuts to the next scene every time he opens his mouth to sing. I had no idea of what Haring was actually creating in the course of this book. It was only in googling his name that I saw imagery that I immediately recognized but had previously been ignorant of who had produced it. Too bad this book hadn't been able to put that together for me.
The art was a little vague and didn't always manage to capture a real person's likeness or make all the characters wholly distinguishable, but I did like the blue, yellow, and pink color scheme. It really made the pages pop. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 1970
Hey, Allen. Are you coming to the county fair this year?
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I am reminded of an essay by Susan Sontag that I read recently. There's a passage that goes like this:
(The metaphor) I am most eager to see retired -- more than ever since the emergence of AIDS -- is the military metaphor . . . The body is not a battlefield. The ill are neither unavoidable casualties nor the enemy. We -- medicine, society -- are not authorized to fight back by any means whatever. . . . About that metaphor, the military one, I would say, if I may paraphrase Lucretius: Give it back to the war-makers. Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors
Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases. From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic death, the trajectory of Keith Haring's life is a story of incredible achievement, luck, opportunity, and extraordinary commitment. This graphic novel looks at every stage of that life, exploring his early influences, the roots of his activism, and his close friendships with other artist contemporaries. It shows readers what it was like to be part of New York City's vibrant downtown art scene in the 1980s--the nightclubs, art openings, the rise of hip-hop--and how world events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall; the escalation of the nuclear arms race; apartheid; and the dawn of the climate crisis played into his work. They'll learn how Haring's own battle with AIDS fueled his advocacy for education and research, and they'll get to know the figures who were most influential to his work-- from Warhol to Basquiat, Fab Five Freddy to Madonna. Packed with key cultural reference points as well as the artist's own reflections, this graphic biography makes for compulsive, eye- opening reading.
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Which raises, the next point: If you are doing a biography of an artist and cannot secure rights to actually show his artwork, it may be time to consider doing a different book instead. This book is like sitting through an Elvis biopic that cuts to the next scene every time he opens his mouth to sing. I had no idea of what Haring was actually creating in the course of this book. It was only in googling his name that I saw imagery that I immediately recognized but had previously been ignorant of who had produced it. Too bad this book hadn't been able to put that together for me.
The art was a little vague and didn't always manage to capture a real person's likeness or make all the characters wholly distinguishable, but I did like the blue, yellow, and pink color scheme. It really made the pages pop. (