Basquiat-isms

Hardback

Main Details

Title Basquiat-isms
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jean-Michel Basquiat
Edited by Larry Warsh
SeriesISMs
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 133,Width 108
Category/GenreArt History
Graffiti and street art
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780691192833
ClassificationsDewey:759.13
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 2 b/w illus.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 4 June 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognisable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection of essential quotations from this godfather of urban culture. In these brief, compelling, and memorable selections, taken from his interviews as well as his visual and written works, Basquiat writes and speaks about culture, his artistic persona, the art world, artistic influence, race, urban life, and many other subjects. Concise, direct, forceful, poetic, and enigmatic, Basquiat's words, like his art, continue to resonate. Select quotations from the book: 'I think there are a lot of people that are neglected in art, I don't know if it's because of who made the paintings or what, but, um...black people are never really portrayed realistically or I mean not even portrayed in modern art.' 'I think I make art for myself, but ultimately I think I make it for the world.' 'The more I paint the more I like everything.' 'As an artist, the most precious thing is what's in the mind. Basquiat's sentences in this book are so delicate and not wasted. They show his inner world truthfully and precisely, why he was a unique person and a unique artist. I love this book.' - Ai Weiwei

Author Biography

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was an American artist. He has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Serpentine Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Foundation Beyeler, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the Barbican, among other venues, and his work is in the permanent collections of major museums around the world. Larry Warsh is the editor of Basquiat's Notebooks and two books by Ai Weiwei, Humanity and Weiwei-isms (all Princeton). Warsh was an early collector of Basquiat and a member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee.

Reviews

"As an artist, the most precious thing is what's in the mind. Basquiat's sentences in this book are so delicate and not wasted. They show his inner world truthfully and precisely, why he was a unique person and a unique artist. I love this book."---Ai Weiwei "[Warsh] makes the contents sound good, too: 'this book provides a glimpse into Basquiat's incredible mind . . . . May his words and thoughts enliven your thinking today as much as they have inspired me for many decades.'" * Times Literary Supplement *