Jean Michel Basquiat

 

Basquiat Paperback from Merrell Publishers

Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Eric Fretz Hardcover from Greenwood

Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban This minutely reported book is as much a portrait of the frenzied, prodigal New York art world of the 1980s as it is a biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose at age 27 in 1988. Basquiat, one of very few African American artists to acquire an international reputation, left a thick web of dealers, collectors, friends, lovers, paintings, drawings, and used syringes behind him. Author Phoebe Hoban seems to have unblinkingly interviewed or examined them all. While she duly registers Basquiat's sad childhood, with his unstable Puerto Rican mother and punishing Haitian father, she doesn't make much of the deeper veins of sorrow and self-destruction that may have motivated the artist and informed his art. Rather, she allows his celebrity, which whisked him from street urchin to art star, to be the central trajectory of this story. The Warhol protégé would probably approve, as he was the primary obliterator of his own psychological depths, throwing away his short, phenomenally productive life in the edgy club and drug scene of downtown Manhattan. The miracle is that Basquiat was so good, and so serious, an artist, surrounded as he was by hype and cash. Hoban's book is a fluid, intricate, authoritative dissection of a time, a place, and--almost--a person. --Peggy Moorman, Amazon.com Paperback from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Jean-Michel Basquiat by Jean-Michel Basquiat Paperback from Charta

Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou Hardcover from Stewart, Tabori and Chang

Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement Paperback from Shearsman Books

Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, The Studio of the Street by Diego Cortez, Glenn O'Brien, Gerard Basquiat, Franklin Sirmans, Arto Lindsay, Jean-Michel Basquiat Hardcover from Charta/ Deitch Projects 2007-02-01

Jean-Michel Basquiat by Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Marshall, Jean-Louis Prat Hardcover from Galerie Enrico Navarra

Basquiat (Numbered/Signed Edition) by Gerard Basquiat Hardcover from Tony Shafrazi Gallery

Basquiat: Drawings by Jean Michel Basquiat Paperback from Bulfinch Pr

 
 
 
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