Author:
Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988.
Publisher:Riehen/Basel : Beyeler Museum AG ; Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2010.
Description:186, li pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Note:Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fondation Bayeler, Riehen/Basel, May 9-Sept. 5, 2010.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:Who was that masked man? ; Basquiat and the New York scene 1978-82 / Glenn O'Brien -- A revolutionary caught between everyday life, knowledge, and myth / Dieter Buchhart, Jean-Michel Basquiat -- I have to have some source material around me : Jean-Michel Basquiat interviewed by Becky Johnston and Tamra Davis, Beverly Hills, California, 1985 -- What becomes a legend most? / Robert Storr -- Chronology / M. Franklin Sirmans.
Note:"American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) quickly became one of art history's most luminescent personalities; his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Madonna, as well as his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven, are the stuff of legend. This retrospective publication traces the artist's unique career and pinpoints his important position in art history. Basquiat's works are marked by the kind of intensity and energy that also determined the course of his brief life. In just eight years--comparable to the career of Egon Schiele--Basquiat not only managed to create an extensive oeuvre, but also to establish new figurative and expressive elements alongside Conceptual and Minimal Art. At the age of twenty-one, he became the youngest artist ever to be invited to the documenta, while his work also anticipated that of Germany's Junge Wilde movement and the art of the nineties."--Publisher's website.
