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Title: Jean Michel Basquiat by Richard Marshall ISBN: 0-8109-6814-2 Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art Pub. Date: 10 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: New York Graffiti Artist turns SuperStar!
Comment: THE best book on Basquiat out there! A very talented New York artist that started out doing graffiti on the New York Subways as SAMO and instantly became famous after one day meeting Andy Warhol and giving him a postcard of his artwork. They became quick friends and Warhol had a great influence on his very short career even though Jean-Michel's work is totally different. Jean Michel died tragically from a drug overdose. Cool little known fact - He dated Madonna! Great photos of the Jean-Michel and an incredible extended chronology in the back of the book. Best yet info on the artist existing anywhere in the the book. Color plates of his art work are superb, large, and mostly one per page, incredible color. I highly recommend this book if you are a fan of Jean-Michel or his friends Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, or Andy Warhol.
Rating: 5
Summary: Basquiat wasn't afraid to be his own man
Comment: This is a great book with many of Basquiat's paintings and drawings. It also has various essays by art critics and people who knew him. I suppose the reviewers who slammed Basquiat also think anybody could knock over a couple of paint buckets and be Jackson Pollock. The genius of Basquit in my mind is his ability to create truly beautiful paintings while painting in a seemingly uncontrolled, primitive (I hate that word) fashion. The way he layered colors, and added details is incredible. My favorite is "Untitled (Skull)" 1981. Here is a brilliant example of how Basquiat combines dissarray, ugliness, harmony, and beauty all into the same striking painting. I know Basquiat idolized Hendrix and ultimately went out much like he did, unable to cope with his talent and the attention it brought. To me Basquiat's painting very much mirrors Hendrix's musical talents. They both created wild, noisy, seemingly unharnessed, unpolished art. But to the careful, sensitive observer the true beauty and magic is revealed.
Rating: 5
Summary: FAST FORGET TUPA KNOWS
Comment: I am not convinced that this is the BEST Jean Michel Basquiat retrospective catalogue to date...but the work selected for this publication is certainly consistently better than most others published before or after this one. Basquiats peak of productivity was from1981-83 and much of that work is catalogued here..But the dissapointment is that many of his last works (circa 1988) will not be found here....but in the more extensive Basquiat catalogue published by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery.
There are also a few images here that will make you wonder why they were selected and some of the text seems to over emphesize
the fact that Basquiat died of a DRUG OVERDOSE.
You can skip the text or consider it ....it's the work that counts in the end!
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Title: Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban ISBN: 0140236090 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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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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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 ASIN: B000065V3Y Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.99 |
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