BOOK

Basquiat : the unknown notebooks

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988, artist, Buchhart, Dieter, 1971- editor, Bloom, Tricia Laughlin, editor, Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of added commentary, Sirmans, Franklin, writer of added commentary, Stackhouse, Christopher, writer of added commentary, Brooklyn Museum, issuing body, host institution, Skira (Firm), issuing body

2015

Overview

\"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. 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 notebooks reveal much about the artist's creative process and the importance of the written word in his aesthetic. With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his critical place in contemporary art history.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc.
• Subject: Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988 Exhibitions. / Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988 Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Exhibitions. / Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions. / Words in art Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 9780847845828, 0847845826, 9780872731790, 0872731790

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NC139.B373 A4 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE