Jean-Michel Basquiat Livres

"Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, mixing with dealers and artists. Among these was Andy Warhol, with whom he established a close working relationship." "Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound." Viewing the heady world of the 1980s art scene from the beginning of a new century, we are able to look at Basquiat's achievements with increasing objectivity. Rather than explore his persona, this book aims to demonstrate the lasting quality of Basquiat's work itself, as well as its uniqueness within modern art. It strives not only to reevaluate his principal works, but also to explain Basquiat's continuing interest as a major painter.

Jean-Michel Basquiat | Xerox is the first concentrated examination of the extraordinary body of work that the artist created using Xerox copies as his principal medium and compositional focal point. These immersive, collaged Xerox paintings epitomize Basquiat’s extraordinary capacity for visual language. Their raw, allover compositions incorporate recycled and transformed signs and markings from the artist’s everyday experiences—including motifs from his earlier artworks. The intricate web of content in this series presages the copy-paste sampling characteristic of the subsequent Internet and post-Internet generations, positioning Basquiat as a pioneer of the pre-digital age. EXHIBITION March 12 – May 31, 2019 Nahmad Contemporary, New York

In the New York of the eighties, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was the first African-American artist to receive international attention. The enormous scope of his oeuvre is inversely proportional to the short, productive period he was given. As the complexity and trailblazing innovative power of his paintings and drawings has been previously discussed at length—this book focuses on the creative aspect of language in Basquiat’s work. With its complex structures, spontaneous rhythms, and sampled, collage-like manifestations appealing to all of the senses, his work was vaulted into the orbit of the Beat Generation’s pop 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 this unpretentious, avant-garde and spontaneous way of working with which Jean-Michel Basquiat wrote art history. It was an artistic means for him to respond to the complexity of modern life in the big city.

Die Publikation widmet sich den ausdrucksstarken Selbstporträts von JeanMichel Basquiat und umfasst seine lebenslange intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Selbst. In Basquiats Œuvre nimmt das Selbstporträt, eines der großen Themen der Kunstgeschichte, eine entscheidende, noch nicht untersuchte Stellung ein. Jean-Michel Basquiats Selbstporträts zählen zu den Hauptwerken seines radikalen Schaffens. Neben den etwa 50 expliziten Selbstdarstellungen können auch eine Reihe seiner Abbildungen afroamerikanischer Männer als versteckte Wiedergabe seines Selbst verstanden werden. Nicht zuletzt weil Basquiat, selbst betroffen vom alltäglichen Rassismus, sich mit seinen dargestellten Helden, Heiligen und Märtyrern identifizierte. So finden sich seine großen Themen wie Identität, Diskriminierung und Vorurteile bis hin zu Kapitalismus, Markt und Unterdrückung in diesen Schlüsselwerken.

"A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat. One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection of essential quotations from this godfather of urban culture. In these brief, compelling, and memorable selections, taken from his interviews as well as his visual and written works, Basquiat writes and speaks about culture, his artistic persona, the art world, artistic influence, race, urban life, and many other subjects. Concise, direct, forceful, poetic, and enigmatic, Basquiat's words, like his art, continue to resonate."--Publisher

This carefully reproduced facsimile edition of renowned visual artist Basquiat's eight notebooks provides us a glimpse into the mind of a visionary artist. On nearly every page, readers will ponder over why and how Basquiat chose to string together these specific words and often bizarre phrases. The notebooks function as a sort of incubator for Basquiat's artistic process as well as a finished product in their own right.

Featuring vibrant, graffiti-style illustrations by Jean-Michel Basquiat, this paperback notebook is designed for creativity and organization. It includes 120 pages with a 5mm dot grid layout, perfect for making lists, jotting down ideas, or doodling. The open, section-sewn binding allows the notebook to lay flat for easy use. Ideal for those who appreciate art and want a stylish way to capture their thoughts, this notebook combines functionality with stunning visual appeal.

Hollywood Africans, a famed painting from the brilliantly expressive Jean-Michel Basquiat is faithfully reproduced here on our A5 Notebooks. teNeues Publishing introduces a very handy A5 Notebook collection with smooth, flexible paper covers and special details like foil or dip-dyed page edges for your desk at home or at the office.