In 1980 Keith Haring adopted a collage style where he manipulated choice phrases from the cover of the New York Post to Dada-ist headlines where his most hated public figures became the butt of the joke. In Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography by John Gruen, Haring wrote:
“The most notorious of my street pieces were the ones that looked like the front page of the New York Post. I’d cut out letters from the Post and rearrange them to make fake headlines, like REAGAN SLAIN BY HERO COP or POPE KILLED FOR FREED HOSTAGE or MOB FLEES AT POPE RALLY. I Xeroxed these in the hundreds and I’d paste them on lampposts and on newsstands. Because they looked so real, people were forced to confront them. They were completely confused—and the posters really made a mark, because they got into people’s consciousness.”
I met Keith in ’80 and I have couple of these xerox collages somewhere. He would often hand them out at clubs or as he was pasting them on the street at night. Gotta look for those…
(via Dangerous Minds)
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