- Hardcover: 175 pages
- Publisher: Tony Shafrazi Gallery; illustrated edition edition (January 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1891475142
- ISBN-13: 978-1891475146
- Product Dimensions: 31.1 x 24.8 x 4.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.5 Kg
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With reproductions of the artist's best work, and a large selection of never-before-seen photographs, this monograph is rounded off with essays and remembrances of Basquiat by critics, colleagues and friends. 200 photos, 175 in color.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
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a must have for any basquiat fan!, Mar 25 2000
By brian mcdonald - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jean-Michel Basquiat (Hardcover)
this is the fifth book i have on basquiat and i am very happy to say that most of the works reproduced in this gorgeous book do not appear in any of the other books i have on him. the quality of the work is splendid and the reproductions are gorgeous! and the book is thick and a treat to look at! i would recommend it to anyone who loves basquiat's brillant works. the guy was a genius and he shines in this book!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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response to someone that thinks they know art, Mar 15 2005
By Rodrigo Salazar - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Basquiat (Numbered/Signed Edition) (Hardcover)
the reviewer must know something everyone else in the world doesn't know. this book is even further proof of the genius of what basquiat did, and what he was able to accomplish in such a short career. just because you do not understand something does not mean it is not valid. that is the point of basquiat's work, which was so layered in meaning that many credit him with being a precursor to today's sampling craze. i suggest you read a little more into something before discounting one of the greatest artists of our generation.
16 of 46 people found the following review helpful
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A Crown for Tony Shafrazi?, Mar 24 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jean-Michel Basquiat (Hardcover)
I thought the excesses of the 1980's had long since passed but then comes along this massive (and expensive) volume on Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the Kings of the 80's art scene two decades ago. Sadly, like much art from that period, Basquiat's faux-primitve paintings come across more like deliberate attempts at critical and commercial success than intuitive genius from a true visionary painter. The art world and its consumers were desperate and happy in the 80's to champion "street art" and graffiti with the growing popularity of folk art in the 1970's. The professional art world latched on to it's own, professional artists working in a vernacular style (Haring, Scharf, Basquiat) in order to appear open to less progromatic art. With folk art, critics and museums of modern art were caught looking backward and left behind. Urban street art, positioned as being more sophisticated and hip, was marketed to an eager consumer market. Is this truly great art? Is Basquiat worthy of a ...book signed by a gallery owner (seller)? Is this the best modern art has to offer? Looking at page after page in this retrospective book becomes a tedious task. The words don't add up to the great poetry of Dickens or Whitman. The artwork can be found in its purer form on the streets of any urban city. Try taking a walk through New York city and leave this book behind. ...
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