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Jean-Michel Basquiat : now's the time / edited by Dieter Buchhart.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Art Gallery of Ontario, 2015Copyright date: �2015Description: 227 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783791354576 (hardback)
Other title:
  • Now's the time
Uniform titles:
  • Paintings. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.2 BAS
LOC classification:
  • ND237.B2763 A4 2015
Contents:
Foreword / Matthew Teitelbaum -- Against all odds / Dieter Buchhart -- Works. Street -- Heroes -- Reclaiming histories -- Collaborations -- Mirrored -- Dualities -- Sampling and scratching -- Provocations -- Essays. Greatest hits / Glenn O'Brien -- Black and white all over / Francesco Pellizzi -- The fragmented self / Olivier Berggruen -- Basquiat today / Franklin Sirmans -- J.M.B.'s dehistories / Christian Campbell -- Chronology / Frankllin Sirmans.
Summary: From his early years spray painting the walls of lower Manhattan to his first solo show in 1982 and his untimely death at the age of 28 in 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become a symbol of the 1980s New York art scene. Now, more than a quarter-century since his death, this book considers Basquiat's works in light of their transformative power. Exquisitely reproduced full-page colour illustrations of his paintings cover the full thematic range of Basquiat's work. Author Dieter Buchhart explores how Basquiat's success paved the way for an entire generation of black artists and how street culture has spread into popular culture.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Books FRA General Stacks Non-fiction 709.2 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00002270

Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, February 7-May 10, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Matthew Teitelbaum -- Against all odds / Dieter Buchhart -- Works. Street -- Heroes -- Reclaiming histories -- Collaborations -- Mirrored -- Dualities -- Sampling and scratching -- Provocations -- Essays. Greatest hits / Glenn O'Brien -- Black and white all over / Francesco Pellizzi -- The fragmented self / Olivier Berggruen -- Basquiat today / Franklin Sirmans -- J.M.B.'s dehistories / Christian Campbell -- Chronology / Frankllin Sirmans.

From his early years spray painting the walls of lower Manhattan to his first solo show in 1982 and his untimely death at the age of 28 in 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become a symbol of the 1980s New York art scene. Now, more than a quarter-century since his death, this book considers Basquiat's works in light of their transformative power. Exquisitely reproduced full-page colour illustrations of his paintings cover the full thematic range of Basquiat's work. Author Dieter Buchhart explores how Basquiat's success paved the way for an entire generation of black artists and how street culture has spread into popular culture.

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