Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art

by Jordana Moore Saggese

Book Overview

Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositions--collages of text and gestural painting across a variety of media--quickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides a new approach to understanding the range and impact of this artist's practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520383346
• ISBN13: 9780520383340
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"