The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses

Book Overview

The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist.

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. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had solo exhibitions in galleries in Italy, New York, and Los Angeles. Basquiat's artistic career followed the rapid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520305167
• ISBN13: 9780520305168
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.9"