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Title: Reading Basquiat
Condition: New
EAN: 9780520276246
ISBN: 9780520276246
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 30/05/2014
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 726g
Author: Jordana Moore Saggese
Language: English
Subtitle: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art
ISBN-10: 0520276248
Description: Jean-Michel Basquiat completed more than 1,500 works before his death at the age of twenty-seven. His unique compositions--collages of text and gestural painting across a variety of media--quickly made him one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides a new approach to understanding the range and impact of Basquiat's practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and ideological debates of the late twentieth century, including the instability of identity, the role of appropriation, and the boundaries of expressionism. Jordana Moore Saggese argues that Basquiat, once known as "the Black Picasso," probes not only the boundaries of blackness but also the boundaries of American art. Weaving together the artist's interests in painting, writing, and music, this groundbreaking book expands the parameters of aesthetic discourse to consider the parallels Basquiat found among these disciplines in his exploration of the production of meaning.Most importantly, Reading Basquiat considers the ways in which Basquiat constructed large parts of his identity--as a black man, as a musician, as a painter, and as a writer--via the manipulation of texts in his own library.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Year: 2014

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