Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing

Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing
Author: Kay Haring
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0525428194

Iconic pop artist Keith Haring comes to life for young readers in this picture book biography lovingly written by his sister This one-of-a-kind book explores the life and art of Keith Haring from his childhood through his meteoric rise to fame. It sheds light on this important artist’s great humanity, his concern for children, and his disregard for the establishment art world. Reproductions of Keith's signature artwork appear in scenes boldly rendered by Robert Neubecker. This is a story to inspire, and a book for Keith Haring fans of all ages to treasure.

Drawing on Walls

Drawing on Walls
Author: Matthew Burgess
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781592702671

Truly devoted to the idea of public art, Haring created murals wherever he went.

Art Is Life

Art Is Life
Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780374304249

Writer Tami Lewis Brown and illustrator Keith Negley present a joyful picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone. Art is life... and life is art. Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone. When Keith first moved to New York City, he rode the subway and noticed how the crowds were bored and brusque, and that the subways were decayed and dreary. He thought the people of New York needed liberating, illuminating, and radiating art. So he bought a stick of white chalk and started drawing...

Keith Haring Journals

Keith Haring Journals
Author: Keith Haring
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1101195614

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 features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Big

Big
Author: Keith Haring
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Total Pages: 14
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

As they stretch their vocabularies, toddlers and preschoolers will be entertained by Keith Haring's kid-friendly illustrations which introduce them to the important concept of color and teach them how to identify different articles of clothing.

King Louie's Shoes

King Louie's Shoes
Author: D.J. Steinberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481426575

Young readers will learn the hilarious true story of King Louis XIV of France and his famous high-heeled shoes in this picture book that includes 14 historical facts about the king at the end. Full color.

Just Like Rube Goldberg

Just Like Rube Goldberg
Author: Sarah Aronson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481476696

Discover how Rube Goldberg followed his dreams to become an award-winning cartoonist, inventor, and even an adjective in the dictionary in this inspiring and funny biographical picture book. Want to become an award-winning cartoonist and inventor? Follow your dreams, just like Rube Goldberg! From a young age, Rube Goldberg had a talent for art. But his father, a German immigrant, wanted Rube to have a secure job. So, Rube went to college and became an engineer. But Rube didn’t want to spend his life mapping sewer pipes. He wanted to follow his passion, so Rube got a low-level job at a newspaper, and from there, he worked his way up, creating cartoons that made people laugh and tickled the imagination. He became known for his fantastic Rube Goldberg machines—complicated contraptions with many parts that performed a simple task in an elaborate and farfetched way. Eventually, his cartoons earned him a Pulitzer Prize and his own adjective in the dictionary. This moving biography is sure to encourage young artists and inventors to pursue their passions.

Nina's Book of Little Things

Nina's Book of Little Things
Author: Keith Haring
Publisher: Big Picture Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Creative activities and seat work
ISBN: 9780763668938

A book of imagination for the little Nina in all of us. Make a little mess, collect some little snowflakes, and draw the things a little bird might say in this book that asks its owner to make his or her mark on every page. Keith Haring presented Nina’s Book of Little Things to a friend’s daughter on her seventh birthday. Now everybody can enjoy this classic book, back in print in a stylish new edition, featuring a back-page pocket for extra items and a band to keep everything safely stowed.

Keith Haring

Keith Haring
Author: Jeffrey Deitch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: ART
ISBN: 069122997X

The subway drawings were a seminal part of Keith Haring's work, not only due to their infamy at the time but because of their lasting effect on the public.This reprint of Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings, published by No More Rulers in association with Princeton University Press, offers a unique look into Haring's subway drawings. Various essays from art world: Jeffrey Deitch, Carlo McCormick, and Henry Geldzahler, including one written by Haring himself, are interspersed with images of the drawings.