Fred Hoffman

Jean Michel Basquiat

Marc Mayer

Celebrating the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this volume features reproductions of his work, including rarely-seen pieces from private collections. It offers new perspectives on Basquiat's achievements, exploring them in the contexts of his key influences, and explores many individual works in detail.

Basquiat

Art in Canada

Né à Brooklyn en 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat est mort à 27 ans après une carrière fulgurante. Immédiatement reconnu sur la scène internationale grâce à des expositions qui lui sont consacrées dès 1981, il fait la connaissance d'Andy Warhol, avec qui il multiplie les collaborations. Afin d'ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives sur l'oeuvre de l'artiste, cet ouvrage tente de décrypter ses liens avec les précurseurs du modernisme et analyse l'impact de ses origines multiculturelles, de la musique et de la culture hip-hop sur ses compositions. Il met ainsi en lumière la grande intelligence plastique, l'inépuisable inventivité et la discrète autodérision d'un génie moderne.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful œuvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern art's most distinctive voices. 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 shrewdly observed and biting. This bestselling book, now available in a compact edition, celebrates Basquiat's achievements in the contexts of the key influences on his art. It not only re-evaluates the artist's principal works and their meaning, but also explains what keeps his painting relevant today.

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