Barnes & Noble Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

It's all here the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss, the adolescent acid trips, the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway Johnny Walker Red poster. Brad Gooch takes us deep into Keith Harings imagination while somehow managing to fix the aura and energy of the 1980s New York art scene to the page. A keen-eyed, beautifully written biography, atmospheric, exuberant, and as radiant as they come. Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Revolutionary Sam Adams A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring. Keith Haring was one of the most emblematic artists of the 1980s, a figure described by his contemporaries as a prophet in his life, his person, and his work. Part of an iconic cultural crowd…