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Basquiat

by Leonhard Emmerling

Book Details

Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Basic Art
ISBN-10 383655979X
ISBN-13 9783836559799
Publisher Taschen GmbH
Imprint Taschen GmbH
Country of Manufacture SK
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 16th, 2015
Print length 96 Pages
Weight 618 grams
Dimensions 26.40 x 21.70 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification: Art & design styles: from c 1960 Drawing & drawings Graffiti & street art Individual artists, art monographs
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From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom.

An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag “SAMO”, before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted barely a decade, he remains a cult figure of artistic social commentary, and a trailblazer in the mediation of graffiti and gallery art.

Basquiat’s work drew upon diverse sources and media to create an original and urgent artistic vocabulary, biting with critique against structures of power and racism. His practice merged abstraction and figuration, poetry and painting, while his influences spanned Greek, Roman, and African art, French poetry, jazz, and the work of artistic contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly. The results are vivid, visceral mixtures of words, African emblems, cartoonish figures, daubs of bold color, and beyond.

This book presents Basquiat’s short but prolific career, his unique style, and his profound engagement with ever-relevant issues of integration and segregation, poverty and wealth.

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