Jean-Michel Basquiat

The Notebooks

Francesco Pellizzi

Glenn O'Brian

21 October to 25 November 1989

Fruitmarket Gallery

Words on the cover in the Greek alphabet and also in English [Concerning nature, poem, the infinite].

Aspects of Contemporary Poetic Activity

Poiesis

Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol

Œuvres Sur Papier

Fred Hoffman

Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, mixing with dealers and artists. Among these was Andy Warhol, with whom he established a close working relationship." "Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound." "Viewing the heady world of the 1980s art scene from the beginning of a new century, we are able to look at Basquiat's achievements with increasing objectivity. Rather than explore his persona, this book aims to demonstrate the lasting quality of Basquiat's work itself, as well as its uniqueness within modern art. It strives not only to reevaluate his principal works, but also to explain Basquiat's continuing interest as a major painter

Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings

International Art & Artists File].

Jean Michel Basquiat

Dieter Buchhart

Art Gallery of Ontario Staff

Now's the Time

Demosthenes Davvetas

Covers the work of Basquiat, 1978-1988, including interviews and commentary from various people who interacted with him during that period.

King for a Decade

Richard Marshall

In Word Only

This book features Jean-Michel Basquiat's work from 1981 - the year of his first official participation in the group exhibition New York/New Wave at PS1 of New York - to his premature death in 1988.

Galerie Fabian Boulakia (Paris)

Maya Angelou

Sara Jane Boyers

Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us, young and old. From the scary thought of panthers in the park to the unsettling scene of a new classroom, fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by the power of faith in ourselves. Angelou's strong verse is matched by the daring vision of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose childlike style reveals the powerful emotions and fanciful imaginings of youth. Together, Angelou's words and Basquiat's paintings create a place where every child--indeed every person--may experience his or her own fearlessness.

Life Doesn't Frighten Me (25th Anniversary Edition)

David A. Ross

Andy Warhol

Kim Levin

Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat

Drawings

Language in the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, from graffiti to word as motif In the wild New York of the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat was the first African-American artist to receive art-world attention. The complexity and trailblazing innovative power of his paintings has been widely discussed, but this book focuses on the treatment of language in Basquiat's ouevre. With its complex structures, spontaneous rhythms and sampled, collage-like manifestations, his work was drawn into the orbit of the Beat Generation poets and the protagonists of the musical avant-garde. The multitalented Basquiat created a shimmering, syncopated fabric of images and text, which the American curator and critic Robert Storr aptly called "eye rap." It was with this unpretentious and spontaneous way of working that Basquiat rewrote art history.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have

Jean-Michel Basquiat - Xerox is the first concentrated examination of the extraordinary body of work that the artist created using Xerox copies as his principal medium and compositional focal point. These immersive, collaged Xerox paintings epitomize Basquiat's extraordinary capacity for visual language. Their raw, allover compositions incorporate recycled and transformed signs and markings from the artist's everyday experiences--including motifs from his earlier artworks. The intricate web of content in this series presages the copy-paste sampling characteristic of the subsequent Internet and post-Internet generations, positioning Basquiat as a pioneer of the pre-digital age.

Xerox

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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