The Notebooks Hardback
by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Edited by Larry Warsh
Part of the The Sketchbooks series
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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.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 160 color illus.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780691167893
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 160 color illus.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691167893