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Keith Haring Journals

by Keith Haring
Shepard Fairey
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Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, adapted for audio, is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon.
Art credit: © Keith Haring Foundation

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  • Release date

    February 15, 2022

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593606254
      • File size: 382590 KB
      • Duration: 13:17:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 30, 1997
      The artist and pop icon reflects on his work and personal relationships in diary entries from age 19 until his death in 1990 at 32.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator David Pittu conveys humanity, warmth, and wonder--all qualities associated with Keith Haring's iconographic works of art. But Pittu never achieves liftoff because Haring's journals fail to present a consistent narrative. The first half of the journals depicts Haring's early life as he goes from being a Deadhead to a successful artist. It's packed with Haring's musings on art and society, some refreshing and some mundane. The second half is more like a daily planner reflecting meetings and events that lack enough detail to serve as cultural touchstones. Breathing life into someone's day-to-day musings is always challenging, and Pittu does a consistently good narration. But fans of Keith Haring's lively, streamlined artwork may find this audiobook disappointing. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2022

      Graffiti artist and pop culture icon Haring kept engaging and extensive journals from 1977 until September 1989 (five months before his death in February 1990), and David Pittu brings them to life with his relaxed and emotive narration of the unabridged audiobook. These journals cover not only Haring's meteoric rise in the art world but also his friendships, rivalries, opinions, and activism. An extended entry in February 1987, after the death of Andy Warhol, is a love letter to Warhol (a friend and mentor to Haring) that succinctly and emotionally captures him as an artist and person. Later in 1987, Haring muses on his mortality; "I am quite aware of the chance that I have or will have AIDS," he writes and Pittu reads with heartbreaking simplicity. "I'm sure that what will live on after I die is important enough to make sacrifices of my personal luxury and leisure time now." VERDICT Unlike The Andy Warhol Diaries, which is gossipy fun but rarely introspective, Haring's journal is beautifully written, thoughtful, and filled with passionate opinions and very personal details.--Kevin Howell

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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