Research Catalog

Title

Keith Haring - posters / Jürgen Döring, Claus von der Osten.

Author

Haring, Keith

Publication

Munich : Prestel Verlag, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haring, Keith.
• Osten, Claus von der
• Döring, Jürgen
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

Whether Keith Haring was raising awareness of the AIDS epidemic and apartheid or celebrating life, music, and dance, his signature illustrations became part of the cultural landscape of the 1980s. Posters were central to Haring's oeuvre and the perfect medium for his inclusive, accessible, and figurative style. This remarkable book brings together exquisite reproductions of Haring's poster output. The author offers fascinating insight into Haring's work, providing commentary on each of the over one hundred posters that Haring designed during his prolific career. An important reference work and a vibrant celebration of a world renowned artist, this book will delight Haring's many fans throughout the world.

Subjects

• Posters, American
• Haring, Keith
• Exhibition catalogs
• Haring, Keith > Exhibitions
• Posters, American > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Keith Haring: Posters, held at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany, May 31-November 5, 2017.
• This catalog is based on the Collection Claus von der Osten. In 2004 Claus von der Osten donated his Keith Haring posters to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

Language (note)

• In German and English.

ISBN

• 9783791356020
• 379135602X
• 9783791367262
• 3791367269

OCLC

• ocn959595388
• 959595388
• SCSB-8962098

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries