The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader is the first comprehensive sourcebook on the artist, closing gaps that have until now limited the sustained study and definitive archiving of his work and its impact. In the span of just a few years, this Black boy from Brooklyn had become one of the most famous American artists of the 1980s. Basquiat's artistic career followed the rapid trajectory of Wall Street, which boomed from 1983 to 1987. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had solo exhibitions in galleries in Italy, New York, and Los Angeles. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Publisher : University of California Pressĭownload The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader in PDF, Epub, and Kindle.A poetic interpretation like no other, Widow Basquiat is an expression of the unrelenting power of addiction, obsession and love. In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. A runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame.

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