Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat
completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositions—collages
of text and gestural painting across a variety of media—quickly
made Basquiat 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 this artist’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 important, Reading Basquiat traces 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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2021 |
| Firstpublished: |
2014 |
| Authors: |
Jordana Moore Saggese
|
| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
268 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-38334-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-520-38334-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780520383340 |
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