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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have

Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Buchhart, Dieter

Hardcover

American Art - African American & BlackGraffiti & Street ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 3775741844
ISBN13: 9783775741842
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: Nov 22 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 3.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 11.60 Depth: 11.50
Language: English

Language in the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, from graffiti to word as motif

In the wild New York of the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat was the first African-American artist to receive art-world attention. The complexity and trailblazing innovative power of his paintings has been widely discussed, but this book focuses on the treatment of language in Basquiat's ouevre. With its complex structures, spontaneous rhythms and sampled, collage-like manifestations, his work was drawn into the orbit of the Beat Generation poets and the protagonists of the musical avant-garde. The multitalented Basquiat created a shimmering, syncopated fabric of images and text, which the American curator and critic Robert Storr aptly called eye rap. It was with this unpretentious and spontaneous way of working that Basquiat rewrote art history.

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