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An incredibly prolific artist, Keith Haring created countless bold, provocative, endearing, and unforgettable images that continue to inspire artists—and delight children—worldwide. Tracing the arc from his early subway \"tags\" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS, illiteracy and apartheid, this visually stunning book is the definitive work on Keith Haring.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204132536498,"sku":"9780847842988","price":42.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780847842988.jpg?v=1786016065"},{"product_id":"9780847899876","title":"Luncheons on the Grass","description":"\u003cb\u003eThirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of \u003ci\u003eLe Déjeuner sur l’herbe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eÉdouard Manet’s \u003ci\u003eLe Déjeuner sur l’herbe\u003c\/i\u003e (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. 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In the 1990s, she launched The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, a rock band associated with Kiss, Alice Cooper, and White Zombie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNude and covered in paint, with blackened teeth and bouffant hair, Pfahler developed a reputation for wild performance that reached far beyond the Lower East Side. Elements of Kabuki theater, surfing, bugs, and giant sharks from her legendary shows were later repurposed for performance art. Beginning in the early 2000s, Pfahler titillated gallery-goers with openings featuring dozens of painted women, butt-prints, and performances involving endurance and strength. With galleries including Emalin and Deitch Projects, Pfahler created a visual lexicon incorporating occult imagery, bondage, and challenging forms of femininity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough teaching, activism, and performance art, Pfahler serves as a mentor to students, and in recent years, a muse to designers including Rick Owens, Casey Cadwallader, and Alessandro Michele. Collecting four decades of ephemera, performance documentation, road pictures, and more, the book celebrates Pfahler as a countercultural star.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368227123573,"sku":"9780847865758","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780847865758_538dc461-e6b6-4227-8d21-0d50f95fef70.jpg?v=1786016161"},{"product_id":"9781580937405","title":"Post Human","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA renewed examination of Jeffrey Deitch’s pivotal exhibition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally exhibited in 1992, Jeffrey Deitch’s groundbreaking exhibition \u003ci\u003ePost Human\u003c\/i\u003e brought together the work of thirty-six young artists interested in new frontiers of body and identity transformation. The prescient exhibition, which traveled to five international venues, introduced the art world to posthumanism - how the human body continues to merge with and diverge from technology. Both the show and it catalogue, which featured a unique visual essay and innovative design, helped set the agenda for art discourse in the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than thirty years later, Deitch revitalized \u003ci\u003ePost Human \u003c\/i\u003eat his Los Angeles gallery, bringing the themes of the original back to the present. The show’s 2024 iteration presented several key figures who participated in the original exhibition in dialogue with emerging contemporary artists whose boundary-pushing work explores how these themes, particularly recent forms of technology such as AI, have evolved over the course of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely publication revisits artworks from both iterations of the show. Readers will discover color photography of the featured works, along with Deitch’s iconic visual essay from the original catalogue and text contributions from contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidotti and critic Philippa Snow. 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