"Renowned in his lifetime for spontaneous, hands-on, archetypal imagery, Keith Haring was embraced by a street audience while also winning the respect of the art establishment during his prolific and regrettably brief ten-year career. His journals, kept from his teens until just before his death from AIDS in 1990, dispel any lingering notion of him as a 'naive' artist, and reveal him to be a conscientious, serious, visionary artist, committed to extending the boundaries of art." -- publisher's statement. from endflap of book.

Foreword by David Hockney, introduction by Robert Farris Thompson. Includes illustrations by Haring, exhibition chronology.