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Jean-Michel Basquiat : Of Symbols and SignsA colour filled retrospective monograph offers new insights into Basquiats unique visual language Jean Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all too brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social,
A colour-filled retrospective monograph offers new insights into Basquiat’s unique visual language
Jean-Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy-not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultural issues. This exciting book shows how Basquiat used an intricate network of signs and symbols to challenge the very system that made him a darling of the art world.
It traces his inspiration from cartoons, children's drawings, and advertising as well as his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage; discusses the influence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; and shows how Basquiat incorporated into his work classical themes and contemporary icons-from athletes to musicians. What becomes clear is how, even as a young man, Basquiat had a profound understanding of the artist's role in art history, and of his position as a young Black artist in a world of racism, suppression and social injustice. This book helps readers decode Basquiat's unique lingua franca, an intoxicating body of work brimming with social commentary that was in turns incisive, angry, comic, hip, and heartbreaking, and that remains powerful and meaningful today.
Details
- Author: Antonia Hoerschelmann is Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Albertina Museum, Vienna.
- Hardcover: 216 pages | 160 colour illustrations
- Date published: October 2022
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783791379579
- Product Dimensions: 30.8 x 25.2 cm
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