The Story of His Life
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 Harings 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 Citys vibrant downtown art scene in the 1980sthe nightclubs, art openings, the rise of hip-hopand 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. Theyll learn how Harings own battle with AIDS fueled his advocacy for education and research, and theyll 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 artists own reflections, this graphic biography makes for compulsive, eye- opening reading.
About Artists & Writers:
PAOLO PARISIis an Italian illustrator and cartoonist living in Italy. He previously published a graphic novel on Jean-Michel Basquiat, which was translated into many languages.