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Basquiat : The Unknown Notebooks

Title: Basquiat : The Unknown Notebooks / edited by Dieter Buchhart and Tricia Laughlin Bloom ; essays by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dieter Buchhart, Franklin Sirmans, Christopher Stackhouse ; plate commentaries by Tricia Laughlin Bloom.
Author: Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988
Publication: New York : Skira Rizzoli in association with the Brooklyn Museum, 2015.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc G 15-39	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Description

245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

"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."--

Uniform Title

Notebooks

Alternative Title

Notebooks

Subjects

Note

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, held at the Brooklyn Museum, April 3-August 23, 2015."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index.

Call Number

Sc G 15-39

ISBN

9780847845828
0847845826
9780872731790
0872731790

LCCN

2014957630

OCLC

900685652

Author

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988, artist.

Title

Basquiat : The Unknown Notebooks / edited by Dieter Buchhart and Tricia Laughlin Bloom ; essays by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dieter Buchhart, Franklin Sirmans, Christopher Stackhouse ; plate commentaries by Tricia Laughlin Bloom.

Publisher

New York : Skira Rizzoli in association with the Brooklyn Museum, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 239) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Buchhart, Dieter, 1971- editor.

Bloom, Tricia Laughlin, editor.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of added commentary.

Sirmans, Franklin, writer of added commentary.

Stackhouse, Christopher, writer of added commentary.

Brooklyn Museum, issuing body, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc G 15-39

JQG 17-622

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