Author(s) | Hans Werner HOLZWARTH & Eleanor NAIRNE

Hardcover | 500 pages

Publisher | TASCHEN

Language(s) | English, French & German

ISBN-13 | 978-3-8365-8654-2

Product Dimensions | 29 x 39.5 cm | Weight | 6.09 kg

Photography | Creatives duMonde

The Artist | The Crown Prince of pentimenti, Jean-Michel BASQUIAT was a self-taught American painter born in New York City in 1960. Active from 1978 to 1988, in a short span of 10 years he produced a formidable and prolific body of work that would cement his incontrovertible mark in American and international art history.

Signature | a crown; half of the graffiti duo “”SAMO©” (pronounced Same-Oh); prominent hero figures; the integrity, dignity, vulnerability and resilience of the historically, socio-culturally and economically marginalized; graphic paintings of layered text and images as social commentary that laid bare the racism and classicism of global society and the art world.

Honors | At age 22, Basquiat was the youngest artist to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York (1993); Since 2018 a public square in the 13th arrondissement of Paris is named Place Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Oeuvre | Jean-Michel Basquiat. XXL – sized monograph. Texts by Editor – Hans Werner Holzwarth and Curator/art historian – Eleanor Nairne.

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