KEITH HARING

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Tragicomedy; or, the world according to Haring By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring(1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring'soriginal and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, boldcolors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him theappreciation of both the art world and the general public; his workappeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In1986, Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York's SoHo sellingHaring-designed memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his workcloser to the public and especially street kids, with whom he never lostcontact.