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Words are all we have : paintings / by Jean-Michel Basquiat ; edited by Dieter Buchhart.

Title
Words are all we have : paintings / by Jean-Michel Basquiat ; edited by Dieter Buchhart.
Author
Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988
Publication
Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Nahmad Contemporary (New York, N.Y.)
  • Buchhart, Dieter, 1971-
  • Nahmad Contemporary (Gallery : New York, N.Y.)
Description
205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 30 cm
Summary
In the New York of the eighties, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was the first African-American artist to receive international attention. The enormous scope of his oeuvre is inversely proportional to the short, productive period he was given. As the complexity and trailblazing innovative power of his paintings and drawings has been previously discussed at length-this book focuses on the creative aspect of language in Basquiat's work. With its complex structures, spontaneous rhythms, and sampled, collage-like manifestations appealing to all of the senses, his work was vaulted into the orbit of the Beat Generation's pop poets and the protagonists of the musical avant-garde. The multitalented Basquiat created a shimmering, syncopated fabric of images and text, which the American curator and critic Robert Storr aptly called 'eye rap'. It was this unpretentious, avant-garde and spontaneous way of working with which Jean-Michel Basquiat wrote art history. It was an artistic means for him to respond to the complexity of modern life in the big city.
Subject
  • Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988 > Exhibitions
  • Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988
  • African American artists > Exhibitions
  • Artists, Black > Exhibitions
  • Painters, Black > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Nahmad Contemporary, New York, May 2-June 18, 2016.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Jean-Michel Basquiat : the word and postmodern différance / Dieter Buchhart -- Baby lonely iambs baby lonely iambs baby lonely iambs / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Knowing an image : Jean-Michel Basquiat and the question of text / Jordana Moore Saggese -- The whole line bows like this : the delta blue signage of Crown Prince Basquiat / Greg Tate -- Erasing Basquiat / Christian Campbell -- Basquiat, the word / Carlo McCormick.
ISBN
  • 9783775741842
  • 3775741844
OCLC
  • 947795192
  • SCSB-10390512
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library