Keith Haring's line : race and the performance of desire / Ricardo Montez.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.Description: xv, 149 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781478008606
  • 1478008601
  • 9781478009535
  • 1478009535
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.92 23
LOC classification:
  • N6537.H348 M66 2020
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: "[O]ffers 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, ... 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 ... 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. ... Chapter 2 explores Haring's non-sexual artistic collaboration with Puerto Rican graffiti artist LA II .... 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 ... examines the performativity of Haring's work in the present. [W]ill be of interest to students and scholars of art history, performance studies, queer studies, Latinx studies, and African American studies"--Abridged from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"[O]ffers 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, ... 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 ... 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. ... Chapter 2 explores Haring's non-sexual artistic collaboration with Puerto Rican graffiti artist LA II .... 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 ... examines the performativity of Haring's work in the present. [W]ill be of interest to students and scholars of art history, performance studies, queer studies, Latinx studies, and African American studies"--Abridged from publisher description.

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