Basquiat biography book

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    “A wonderful publication, not only about the artist but also about his close relationship with his family and friends”

    The American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat led a whirlwind existence, harnessing the urgency of street art and taking the s New York art world by storm before his untimely death in , aged just Since then, his legend has grown while prices for his work have sky rocketed. He has been the subject of several major institutional shows recently, many of which have been curated bygd the Basquiat expert Dieter Buchhart.The latest one, a look at Basquiat’s collaborations with Andy Warhol, opens at Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton this month. As well as recommending essays by the likes of Okwui Enwezor in previous catalogues he has worked on—Fondation Beyeler’s in and Fondation Louis Vuitton’s in —Buchhart has select

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    Basquiat's "Defacement"

    The Untold Story

    Published by Guggenheim Museum.
    Text bygd Chaédria LaBouvier, Nancy Spector, J. Faith Almiron, Greg Tate. Contributions by Luc Sante, Carlo McCormick, Jeffrey Deitch, Kenny Scharf, Fred Braithwaite, Michelle Shocked, et al.

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    Guggenheim Museum

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    Paperback, x in. / pgs / 60 color.

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    Pub Date 7/23/
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    Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Published bygd Hatje Cantz.
    Text by Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brie

    Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

    May 21,
    Well. I actually liked this book quite a bit. I should point out right away that you won't learn anything about Basquiat's work reading it, but I didn't truthfully expect to. That's not why I picked it up. The book is strictly about the artist's life and times, both of which were a hot mess. From everything recounted here, the eighties art market in New York sounds completely deranged (not that it's much different now, I suspect).
    The portrait of Basquiat that emerges is not pretty, but judging from the number of sources, it's probably pretty accurate: impossibly childlike, uncontrollable, completely incapable of coping with the tasks of day-to-day life or of reining in his appetite for drugs, women, and alcohol. From the start of his career, he was a "functioning addict." By the end he was just an addict. The later parts of the book read like every episode of VH1's Behind the Music ever: "Unfortunately, the drugs, booze and out-of-control w
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