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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic Work

By (author) Dieter Buchhart

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The artistâ€™s most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiatâ€”artist and art world provocateurâ€”took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In this important volume, devoted to an exhibition at the Brant Foundation in their newly opened Manhattan outpost featuring the artistâ€™s key works, Basquiatâ€™s art returns to its East Village roots, contextualized for the first time in decades in the very neighborhood that served as one of his greatest inspirations. Dieter Buchhart, noted Basquiat scholar and curator, brings together one hundred of the artistâ€™s most important works, focusing on the best examples of the many subjects that informed Basquiatâ€™s work, from jazz, anatomy, sports figures, comics, classical literature, the African diaspora, and art history. The exhibition partially restages three of the artistâ€™s critical early shows, including an exhibition of the artistâ€™s paintings and drawings of heads at Robert Miller Gallery; his most important canvases from Gagosian Galleryâ€™s 1982 show in Los Angeles; and Basquiatâ€™s solo show at Fun Gallery in the East Village. Buchhart also considers in-depth the artistâ€™s so-called stretcher bar paintings, in which the normally hidden wooden supports for stretched canvases are exposed, works that have yet to be explored at length by scholars. In so doing, Buchhart offers a critical assessment of the enduring importance and legacy of the artistâ€™s work. Â© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

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