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KEITH HARING: DANCING PENIS.

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 GBP Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP
KEITH HARING: DANCING PENIS.
KEITH HARING: DANCING PENIS. A drawing on an album page by Keith Haring in black biro on an autograph page. Keith Haring is perhaps the first artist who has spoken about homosexuality (and thus sexuality in general) in a completely different way, by removing it from the subculture and the stereotypes, to which its mode of expression was linked. He even invented a new type of speech, and above all lent another framework to cultural relationships in accordance with which pleasure and free sensuality are the means to knowledge, not suffering and guilt. This great effort towards de-dramatization took place just at the time when the drama of the collective tragedy of Aids appeared. If the artists of body art internalized the guilt, then Haring turned it outwards and called it by its true name: political power, religious institutions, anti-sexual morals, phallocracy.

Condition Report: Good. There is a crease that runs through part of the image, and the page has been trimmed.

Provenance: Supplied with coa.