Book description
The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with New York in the 1980s, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city. He appeared as part of a thriving underground sceneā¦
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1 author picked Jean-Michel Basquiat as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book makes the top of my list simply for the very practical reason that it gathers the majority of available images spanning Basquiatās entire body of work.
Its small size makes it accessible and affordable, however for that same reason, the images are not reproduced as largely as in other art books. At a chunky 512 pages, this stylish art book is the definitive volume for seeing high-quality reproductions of all of Basquiatās documented work organized in one volume. It also includes some decent text content.
As a scholar or collector this is a very useful book but itāsā¦
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