| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 149 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Desire in transit : writing it out in New York City -- "Trade" marks : LA II and a queer economy of exchange -- Theory made flesh? : keeping up with Grace Jones -- Drips, rust, and residue : forms of longing |
| Summary |
"KEITH HARING'S LINE offers one of the first monographic treatments of Keith Haring's artistry, paying specific attention to Haring's engagements with non-white artists and artistic traditions. Foregrounding Haring's fetishization of men of color, Ricardo Montez seeks to challenge fixed narratives of race and power by moving from a notion of collaboration to a model of complicity. In doing so, Montez asks how we can view Haring's signature artistic line-with its appropriation of Black and Latino artistic cultures-as mobile and unfixed, rather than encased in a foreclosed moral narrative. Montez takes us into the scenes of artistic collaboration, examining how Haring's interactions with artists of color were problematic in their racialized components, but also provided new avenues for representational practice. Lastly, Montez, a performance studies scholar, seeks to examine the work that Haring's line and artwork continue to do in the world, thereby unsettling moralizing narratives that have developed since the artist's death in 1990. This book is comprised of an introduction and four chapters. Chapter 1 examines the early writing and work of Haring, theorizing the ties between the development of his signature line and his cross-racial desire. Chapter 2 explores Haring's non-sexual artistic collaboration with Puerto Rican graffiti artist LA II, and traces the process of exchange present in their relationship: for Haring, commodity and sexual fetishism, and for LA II, a way to engage with Haring's work as a means towards his own success. Chapter 3 examines Grace Jones's relationship with French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, and Goude's desire to manipulate Jones's body into the representational image of "ideal primitive beauty"-something which inspired Haring in his own collaborations with Jones. Chapter 4, inspired by both the animating force of Haring's archive and the work of José Esteban Muñoz, examines the performativity of Haring's work in the present. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of art history, performance studies, queer studies, Latinx studies, and African American studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Haring, Keith -- Criticism and interpretation
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LA II, 1967-
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Jones, Grace.
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Goude, Jean-Paul, 1940-
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Muñoz, José Esteban.
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| SUBJECT |
Muñoz, Jose Esteban
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Goude, Jean-Paul, 1940-
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Jones, Grace
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LA II, 1967-
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Haring, Keith -- Criticism and interpretation
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Goude, Jean-Paul, 1940- fast |
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Haring, Keith fast |
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Jones, Grace fast |
| Subject |
Pop art -- United States.
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Street art -- United States
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Art, American -- 20th century.
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Art and race.
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ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
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Art, American
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Art and race
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Pop art
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Street art
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019050673 |
| ISBN |
1478012196 |
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9781478012191 |
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