Hatje Cantz Publishers | ISBN:3775725938 | File Type: PDF, 224 pages | File size: 34.Mb | Nov. 30th, 2010
Artist Monographs: The first African American artist to attain art superstardom Jean Michel Basquiat 1960 1988 created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings Jian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally leaving a portfolio of about 2 000 drawings on a subway car in the space of just eight years Through his street roots in graffiti Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting breaking the white male stranglehold of Conceptual and Minimal art and foreshadowing among other tendencies Germany s Junge Wilde movement It was not only Basquiat s art but also the s of his biography that made his name legendary his early years as Samo his graffiti artist moniker his friendships with Andy Warhol Keith Haring and Madonna and his tragically early death from a heroin overdose This superbly produced retrospective publication assesses Basquiat s luminous career with commentary by among others Glenn O Brien and 160 color reproductions of the work Jean Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn New York to a uerto Rican mother and a Haitian father an ethnic mix that meant young Jean Michel was fluent in French Spanish and English by the age of 11 In 1977 at the age of 17 Basquiat took up graffiti inscribing the landscape of downtown Manhattan with his signature Samo In 1980 he was included in the landmark group exhibition The Times Square Show the following year at the age of 21 Basquiat became the youngest artist ever to be invited to Documenta By 1982 Basquiat had befriended Andy Warhol later collaborating with him Basquiat was much affected by Warhol s death in 1987 He died of a heroin overdose on August 22 1988 at the age of 27
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