Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670854778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rather, she allows his celebrity, which whisked him from street urchin to art star, to be the central trajectory of this story. This minutely reported book is as much a portrait of the frenzied, prodigal New York art world of the 1980s as it is a biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose at age 27 in 1988. Hoban's book is a fluid, intricate, authoritative dissection of a time, a place, and--almost--a person. While she duly registers Basquiat's sad childhood, with his unstable Puerto Rican mother and punishing Haitian father, she doesn't make much of the deeper veins of sorrow and self-destruction that may have motivated the artist and informed his art. The miracle is that Basquiat was so good, and so serious, an artist, surrounded as he was by hype and cash. Author Phoebe Hoban seems to have unblinkingly interviewed or examined them all. --Peggy Moorman. The Warhol pr
Three Stars Much to my surprise, it was a thick book of all print. No illustrations of his work. Phonebe Hoban is a great Basquiat expert A Customer Phoebe Hoban has shown that she is a great Basquiat expert. She spent 7 years to do research for this book, and that is why the book is filled with credible interviews, comments and fascinating stories. She is so honest and decent, and she is not afraid of affending bad guys or anyone for that matter. She even named all those drug dealers who sold stuff to JMB. I solute and applause to her great effort. In the end of the book, she also did not forget to write her visit to JMB's mother who is apparently suffering from her fraigile psych. "IF YOU NEED ONE BOOK ABOUT BASQUIAT, THIS IS IT !" according to A Customer. I really love this book ! I buy a lot of art books all the time. Some of them are pretty bad, and one of the art books I recently bought only because it was published 20 editions already. And that one was really a disappointment. This book, however, is the BEST art book I have ever bought! It is a book I will always come back to read again and again. (I have finished it IF YOU NEED ONE BOOK ABOUT BASQUIAT, THIS IS IT ! I really love this book ! I buy a lot of art books all the time. Some of them are pretty bad, and one of the art books I recently bought only because it was published 20 editions already. And that one was really a disappointment. This book, however, is the BEST art book I have ever bought! It is a book I will always come back to read again and again. (I have finished it 3 days after I got it and now I am reading it the second time) If you need only one book about Basquiat, let this one be it, and you will make a great choice. The write. days after I got it and now I am reading it the second time) If you need only one book about Basquiat, let this one be it, and you will make a great choice. The write
Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went from being a teenage graffiti writer to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. It is also the evocation of an era--one that fueled Basquiat's hyperactive rise to stardom and sadly predicable death.. And the legend endures: the 1980s art world enfant terrible became the subject of the 1996 film Basquiat, starring Jeffrey Wright, Dennis Hopper, and David Bowie. A legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat's meteoric success and overnight burnout were an instant