Binding: Hardcover
Description: A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooks Brooklyn - born Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career first as a member of SAMO a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressionist style. From 1980 to 1987, he filled numerous working notebooks with drawings and handwritten texts. This facsimile edition reproduces the pages of eight of these fascinating and rarely seen notebooks for the first time. The notebooks are filled with images and words that recur in Basquiat's paintings and other works. Iconic drawings and pictograms of crowns teepees and hatch - marked hearts share space with handwritten texts including notes observations and poems that often touch on culture race class and life in New York. Like his other work the notebooks vividly demonstrate Basquiat's deep interests in comic street and pop art hip - hop politics and the ephemera of urban life. They also provide an intimate look at the working process of one of the most creative forces in contemporary American art. Published in association with No More Rulers
Title: The Notebooks
Author(s): Basquiat Jean - Michel, Larry Warsh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691167893
Pages: 304 Pages, 160 Color Illus.
Publication Date: 5/26/2015
Series: The Sketchbooks
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs