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The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader

Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses

Author: Jordana Moore Saggese   Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art

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"The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Daedalus Foundation in making this book possible"--Title page verso.

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"The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Daedalus Foundation in making this book possible"--Title page verso.

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The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had solo exhibitions in galleries in Italy, New York, and Los Angeles. Basquiat's artistic career followed the rapid trajectory of Wall Street, which boomed from 1983 to 1987. In the span of just a few years, this Black boy from Brooklyn had become one of the most famous American artists of the 1980s. The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader is the first comprehensive sourcebook on the artist, closing gaps that have until now limited the sustained study and definitive archiving of his work and its impact.
 
Eight years after his first exhibition, Basquiat was dead, but his popularity has only grown. Through a combination of interviews with the artist, criticism from the artist's lifetime and immediately after, previously unpublished research by the author, and a selection of the most important critical essays on the artist's work, this collection provides a full picture of the artist's views on art and culture, his working process, and the critical significance of his work both then and now.

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Critic Reviews

“"This comprehensive survey should be required reading for contemporary art and African American history connoisseurs alike."”

Publishers Weekly

"If Basquiat’s ultimate fate in the annals of art history remains unknown, it is Saggese’s Reader to which the future will turn for guidance as she expertly maps out the historical territory."

Rain Taxi Review of Books

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About the Author

Jordana Moore Saggese is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary American art at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2nd March 2021
Pages
408
ISBN
9780520305151

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