Jean-Michel Basquiat

Of Symbols and Signs

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Dieter Buchhart, Antonia Hoerschelmann
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NZ$ 120.00
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Hardback
h308 x 254mm - 216pg
11 Oct 2022 GE
International import eta 10-19 days
9783791379579
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This exciting, colour-filled retrospective monograph offers new insights into Basquiat' s unique visual language and helps illuminate messages about political and social issues that feel as urgent today as they did a half-century ago. Jean-Michel Basquiat' s symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy - not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultural issues. This exciting book shows how Basquiat used an intricate network of signs and symbols to challenge the very system that made him a darling of the art world. It traces his inspiration from cartoons, children' s drawings, and advertising as well as his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage; discusses the influence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; and shows how Basquiat incorporated into his work classical themes and contemporary icons--from athletes to musicians. What becomes clear is how, even as a young man, Basquiat had a profound understanding of the artist' s role in art history, and of his unique position as a young Black artist in a world of racism, suppression and social injustice. This book helps readers decode Basquiat' s unique lingua franca, an intoxicating body of work brimming with social commentary that was in turns incisive, angry, comic, hip, and heartbreaking, and that remains powerful and meaningful today. AUTHORS: Dieter Buchhart is an international guest curator and Basquiat specialist. Antonia Hoerschelmann is Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. Klaus Albrecht Schroeder is Director of the Albertina in Vienna. SELLING POINTS: . Perfect for fans of Basquiat and the 1980s New York art scene . Showcases 80 of Basquiat' s major works from renowned collections . This beautifully produced hardcover features 180 colour illustrations . Traces the influence of cartoons, children' s drawings and advertising as well as African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories on Basquiat' s evolution as an artist 160 colour illustrations
DIETER BUCHHART is an international guest curator and Basquiat specialist. ANTONIA HOERSCHELMANN is Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. KLAUS ALBRECHT SCHRO DER is Director of the Albertina in Vienna.

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