Basquiat : The Unknown Notebooks - Tricia Laughlin Bloom

Basquiat

The Unknown Notebooks

By: Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Dieter Buchhart (Editor)

Hardcover | 1 June 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s.

In a series of notebooks from the early to mid-1980s, never before exhibited, Basquiat combined text and images reflecting his engagement with the countercultures of graffiti and hip-hop in New York City, as well as pop culture and world events.

Filled with handwritten texts, poems, pictograms, and drawings, many of them iconic images that recur throughout his artwork-teepees, crowns, skeleton-like silhouettes, and grimacing masks-and these notebooks reveal much about the artist's creative process and the importance of the written word in his aesthetic. With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his critical place in contemporary art history.

About the Authors

Dieter Buchhart is a critic, art historian, and curator based in Vienna. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he directs the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research.

Tricia Laughlin Bloom is associate curator of exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Franklin Sirmans is department head and curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Christopher Stackhouse is a writer and visual artist based in Brooklyn.
Industry Reviews
"With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides exceptional insights into the life and works of Basquiat."
-CRAVEONLINE.COM

"With vibrant visuals and Basquiat's imaginative text, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists." 
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career andhiscritical place in contemporary art history."
-THE NEW AMERICAN

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