The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader - Writings Interviews and Critical Responses - Jordana Moore Saggese Kartoniert (TB)

The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982 at the age of twenty-one Basquiat had solo exhibitions in galleries in Italy New York and Los Angeles. Basquiat's artistic career followed the rapid trajectory of Wall Street which boomed from 1983 to 1987. In the span of just a few years this Black boy from Brooklyn had become one of the most famous American art ists of the 1980s. The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader is the first comprehensive sourcebook on the artist closing gaps that have until now limited the sustained study and definitive archiving of his work and its impact.