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Title: Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban ISBN: 0-14-023609-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Basquiat: We hardly Knew Ye
Comment: This book runs the gamut between gossip, stories of 80's excesses, and art history. The book is not so much a biography of Basquiat, rather a peek into the insipid world of the 1980's New York art scene. It has the usual "hangers-on" bottom-feeding on the talents of others, the "know nothing" art buyers driving prices up on marginal works, and the merciless art dealers who appear oddly enough to be the victims in this book. Basquiat does not deserve glorification, after all he was a drug-soaked addict and mooch, and this book provides none. It is a lively read that brings to the forefront the artists that drove the scene, the dealers that made them famous, and the host of actors that shaped the movement.
Rating: 5
Summary: IF YOU NEED ONE BOOK ABOUT BASQUIAT, THIS IS IT !
Comment: I really love this book ! I buy a lot of art books all the time. Some of them are pretty bad, and one of the art books I recently bought only because it was published 20 editions already. And that one was really a disappointment. This book, however, is the BEST art book I have ever bought! It is a book I will always come back to read again and again. (I have finished it 3 days after I got it and now I am reading it the second time) If you need only one book about Basquiat, let this one be it, and you will make a great choice. The writer has great knowledge in art, and that make this book so much more valuable!
I cannot recommend the book called Widow Basquiat. Because nobody knows who should be called Widow Basquiat. There are at least 2 dozen girls fighting for that title and the money behind it, not-knowing that Basquiat senior has already got the best lawyer and inherited everything from his son.
Rating: 5
Summary: Phonebe Hoban is a great Basquiat expert
Comment: Phoebe Hoban has shown that she is a great Basquiat expert. She spent 7 years to do research for this book, and that is why the book is filled with credible interviews, comments and fascinating stories. She is so honest and decent, and she is not afraid of affending bad guys or anyone for that matter. She even named all those drug dealers who sold stuff to JMB. I solute and applause to her great effort. In the end of the book, she also did not forget to write her visit to JMB's mother who is apparently suffering from her fraigile psychological condition. The writer told us the vivid scence at her home. The writer asked us not to forget this: while JMB's father got millions dollars by inhariting the entire JMB fortune, his mother who has been long divorced from his father, Basquiat senior, has been living in absolute poverty. Lawyers, this is your chance to make it. Even if you do not have much good conscience, just think about the estimated value of the JMB estate - (now valued over $500 million !) you should go and and visit JMB's mother today and start sueing JMB estate which is run by JMB's father. (by the legal arrangement, each party has 50%) This is one thing JMB himself will be pleased.
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Title: Jean Michel Basquiat by Richard Marshall ISBN: 0810968142 Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art Pub. Date: 10 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title:Basquiat ASIN: B000065V3Y Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.39 |
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Title:Downtown 81 ASIN: B00006GF6H Publisher: Zeitgeist Video Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.99 |
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Title: Basquiat by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Luca Marenzi, Keith Haring ISBN: 8881582392 Publisher: Charta Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling ISBN: 382281637X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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