Jean-Michel Basquiat
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti transitioned from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely black, Latino and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti-inspired compositions. Jean-Michel Basquiat was among the best known of these emerging artists. He and his fellow creators...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This carefully reproduced facsimile edition of renowned visual artist Basquiat's eight notebooks provides us a glimpse into the mind of a visionary artist. On nearly every page, readers will ponder over why and how Basquiat chose to string together these specific words and often bizarre phrases. The notebooks function as a sort of incubator for Basquiat's artistic process as well as a finished product in their own right.
Author
Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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Description
Presents Maya Angelou's poem illustrated by paintings and drawings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Features biographies of both the author and artist. This stirring marriage of poetry and art combines the daring of Basquiat's vision with the courage and strength of
4) Downtown 81
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O'Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who'd just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed out bohemia that they knew, with a script by O'Brien, Bertoglio directing, and Basquiat, a naturally compelling presence, starring. Left incomplete due to money problems and assembled...
5) 12 Days
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Encompassing questions of mental health, power, class, agency, and the dynamics of societal institutions, 12 DAYS is consummately controlled yet empathetic exploration of the controversial practice of mandatory psychiatric detention.
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book allows an unprecedented insight into Basquiat's art, with pristine reproductions of his most seminal paintings, drawings, and notebook sketches. In large-scale format, the book offers vivid proximity to Basquiat's intricate marks and scribbled words, further illuminated by an introduction to the artist from editor Hans Werner Holzwarth, as well as an essay on his themes and artistic development from curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne....
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