Pop Shop III is the Keith Haring portfolio about machines. Its four screenprints, made in 1989, set his figures loose around a radio and an early computer with a good deal of humour: one friend is hauled out of the radio by another, three figures cover their eyes, a pair of bodies become a pair of scissors cutting through a cord, and a yellow figure bends over the machine to see what is making the noise.
Technology was a long-running preoccupation for Haring. In 1978, the year he arrived in New York, he asked in his journal, “Are we controlling computers, or are we merely helping them to control us?” By 1986 his wariness had turned to curiosity, and he wrote that his drawings were “very close to the idea of ‘pixels’”. In 1987 he made a set of digital drawings on an Amiga, a model Timothy Leary handed out to artists including Warhol and Haring. The three figures covering their eyes use a gesture that recurs through his work in these years, including Rebel with Many Causes in the same year as these prints. For collectors, Pop Shop III is the one with a story, a playful, topical line aimed at the machine age, from an artist who was never quite sure whether to trust the machine.
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Keith Haring Pop Shop III (Littmann PP. 144-145)
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Free South Africa
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Ludo
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Andy Mouse
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Bad Boys
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Lucky Strike
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Untitled 1–4 (1987)
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Apocalypse
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Growing
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