Basquiat-Isms by Basquiat, Jean-Michel

Basquiat-Isms

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the...
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Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Basquiat-Isms by Basquiat, Jean-Michel

Basquiat-Isms

$17.95

Basquiat-Isms

$17.95
Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat

One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection of essential quotations from this godfather of urban culture. In these brief, compelling, and memorable selections, taken from his interviews as well as his visual and written works, Basquiat writes and speaks about culture, his artistic persona, the art world, artistic influence, race, urban life, and many other subjects. Concise, direct, forceful, poetic, and enigmatic, Basquiat's words, like his art, continue to resonate.

Select quotations from the book:
  • "I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them."
  • "I think there are a lot of people that are neglected in art, I don't know if it's because of who made the paintings or what, but, um . . . black people are never really portrayed realistically or I mean not even portrayed in modern art."
  • "Since I was 17, I thought I might be a star."
  • "The more I paint the more I like everything."
  • "I think I make art for myself, but ultimately I think I make it for the world."


Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 06/04/2019
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 5.40h x 4.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780691192833

About the Author
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was an American artist. He has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Serpentine Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Foundation Beyeler, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the Barbican, among other venues, and his work is in the permanent collections of major museums around the world. Larry Warsh is the editor of Basquiat's Notebooks and two books by Ai Weiwei, Humanity and Weiwei-isms (all Princeton). Warsh was an early collector of Basquiat and a member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee.

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