In Forgetting Is How We Survive, people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for lost futures. Each character faces a turning point - an event that will move their life from one path to another, and every event casts a shadow.
By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring's original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In 1986, Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York's SoHo selling Haring-designed memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his work closer to the public and especially street kids, with whom he never lost contact.
Featuring an innovative foldout design that allows readers to view and read about the art simultaneously, a guide to thirty-three popular paintings, as selected by curators, includes commentary on each work and nearly three hundred photographs. 25,000 first printing.