Basquiat /

By:

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988

Contributor(s):

185894287X
9781858942872
0872731529
9780872731523
1858943612
9781858943619

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LOC classification:

N6537.B233 A4 2005
ND237.B2763 A4 2005

Contents:

Basquiat in history / Marc Mayer -- In the cipher: Basquiat and hip-hop culture / Franklin Sirmans -- The defining years: notes on five key works / Fred Hoffman -- Lost in translation: Jean-Michel in the (re)mix / Kellie Jones -- Exhibition history.

Review: "Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, mixing with dealers and artists. Among these was Andy Warhol, with whom he established a close working relationship." "Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound." "Viewing the heady world of the 1980s art scene from the beginning of a new century, we are able to look at Basquiat's achievements with increasing objectivity. Rather than explore his persona, this book aims to demonstrate the lasting quality of Basquiat's work itself, as well as its uniqueness within modern art. It strives not only to reevaluate his principal works, but also to explain Basquiat's continuing interest as a major painter."--Jacket.

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Title notes ( 4 )

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	N 6537 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0007678

Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Brooklyn Museum, Mar. 11-June 5, 2005, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, July 17-Oct. 10, 2005, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nov. 20, 2005-Feb. 12, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-223) and index.

"Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, mixing with dealers and artists. Among these was Andy Warhol, with whom he established a close working relationship." "Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound." "Viewing the heady world of the 1980s art scene from the beginning of a new century, we are able to look at Basquiat's achievements with increasing objectivity. Rather than explore his persona, this book aims to demonstrate the lasting quality of Basquiat's work itself, as well as its uniqueness within modern art. It strives not only to reevaluate his principal works, but also to explain Basquiat's continuing interest as a major painter."--Jacket.