Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed., 9783836580922
Hardcover
Basquiat: Royalty, heroism, and the streets in 1980s New York.

Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.

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  • Hardcover

    512 pages

  • Release Date

    6 September 2020

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Summary

The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city. He appeared as part of a thriving underground scene of visual arts and graffiti, hip hop, post-punk, and DIY filmmaking, which met in a booming art world. As a painter with a strong personal voice, Basquiat soon broke into the establishe…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783836580922
ISBN-10:3836580926
Author:Eleanor Nairne, Hans Werner Holzwarth
Publisher:Taschen GmbH
Imprint:Taschen GmbH
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:512
Release Date:6 September 2020
Weight:1.31kg
Dimensions:38mm x 224mm x 166mm
Series:45th Edition
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”

I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life. * Jean-Michel Basquiat *The most complete monograph on Basquiat that exists. * El País *A must have… Exceptional reproductions of his most important paintings, drawings and sketches, to be shared with lovers of Basquiat’s raw art. * vogue.com *A cult object composed of exceptional reproductions of Basquiat’s most important paintings, drawings, and sketches. * Vogue *

About The Author

Eleanor Nairne

Eleanor Nairne is a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery. She has worked on a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions and publications, including Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017) and Imran Qureshi: Where the Shadows are so Deep (2016). Prior to the Barbican, she was curator of the Artangel Collection at Tate. She is a regular catalogue essayist, a writer for frieze, and a previous Jerwood Writer in Residence.

Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. His TASCHEN publications include the Collector’s Editions Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Neo Rauch, Ai Weiwei, Beatriz Milhazes, Julian Schnabel, Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, the David Hockney SUMO A Bigger Book, as well as monographs such as the XXL-sized Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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