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Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
Dieter Buchhart (Ed.)
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Description for Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
Hardcover. Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. Editor(s): Buchhart, Dieter. Num Pages: 240 pages, 280 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 255 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1750.
With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series of notebooks from the early to mid-1980s, never before exhibited, Basquiat combined text and images reflecting his engagement with the countercultures of graffiti and hip-hop in New York City, as well as pop culture and world events. Filled with handwritten texts, poems, pictograms, and drawings, many of them iconic images that recur throughout his artwork teepees, crowns, skeleton-like silhouettes, and grimacing masks and these ... Read more
With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series of notebooks from the early to mid-1980s, never before exhibited, Basquiat combined text and images reflecting his engagement with the countercultures of graffiti and hip-hop in New York City, as well as pop culture and world events. Filled with handwritten texts, poems, pictograms, and drawings, many of them iconic images that recur throughout his artwork teepees, crowns, skeleton-like silhouettes, and grimacing masks and these ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1750g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847845828
SKU
V9780847845828
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Ref
99-15
About Dieter Buchhart (Ed.)
Dieter Buchhart is a critic, art historian, and curator based in Vienna. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he directs the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Tricia Laughlin Bloom is associate curator of exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. ... Read more
Reviews for Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
"With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides exceptional insights into the life and works of Basquiat." -CRAVEONLINE.COM "With vibrant visuals and Basquiat's imaginative text, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book ... Read more