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| Basquiat | 
| Creators: Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, Marc Mayer, Franklin Sirmans
Publisher: Merrell
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 156123
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1858943612
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9781858943619
ASIN: 1858943612
Publication Date: September 30, 2006
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Book Description
A stunningly designed landmark publication celebrating the astonishing work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), whose meteoric and often controversial career lasted for only eight years until his death at the age of twenty-seven. Basquiat features spectacular reproductions of Basquiat's work, including many rarely exhibited pieces from private collections and offers fresh new perspectives on Basquiat's achievements, explored in the contexts of the key influences on his work, including Picasso, Matisse and Twombly; the development of hip-hop culture; and the emergence of a multicultural society. Explores many of Basquiat's individual works in detail, with particular reference to his working methods and techniques and accompanies a major travelling exhibition. This is an indispensable book that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Is he really great? April 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Brooklyn museum which benefited from many loans from private collections. The artist's brief career is shown here with many of his best paintings from the pivotal year 1982. The quality of the images is excellent. Now this book has not lifted my doubts whether Basquiat is really a great artist in the line of Twombly and Dubuffet whose influences he acknowledged. Seeing his oeuvre in a retrospective as complete as this one, I can't help but noticing a weakening in the "late years", that is after 1984, when he started inserting xerox collages on his canvases (many of these works appear in the book), or when the repetition of his main themes and characters becomes a bit boring. As for the book itself, if you like Basquiat, it is a must-have. If you don't like him, well...
 Good Value March 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent art book for the price. It contains a large number of color plates of Basquiat's best works, along with some good scholarly essays. The color plates are fairly small, however, with many of the paintings only taking up a half or a third of the page. Full page reproductions would be much more satisfying, but the book is still worth its price. I was pleased that the curators of this exhibition omitted the dreadful Warhol collaborative works, as those are such a down note for Basquiat books to end on. This collection manages to present the very best of his final works, rather than demonstrating, as many works on this subject do, that Basquiat's talent waned and failed.
A retrospective important for any modern art library collection. November 5, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 in New York and never reached age 30, but his short and controversial career created a distinct and influential style in modern art and here is celebrated in BASQUIAT, a full-color display of his graffiti-inspired street art. From religious symbolism to inner city influences, BASQUIAT gathers and examines all the works of his eight-year career under one cover in a retrospective important for any modern art library collection.
great book August 23, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
shows the progression of his work over the years, a great insight into his evolution as an artist.
Extremely Good Book March 22, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book! Full of great colorful plates and information about Basquiat's life.
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