Radiant Child - The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Informationen zum Autor Javaka Steptoe is a Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Illustrator award-winning artist, designer, and illustrator. His debut picture book, In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall, won the Coretta Scott King Award, and Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow (written by Gary Golio) received a Coretta Scott King Honor. He has also illustrated Do You Know What I'll Do? by Charlotte Zolotow, A Pocketful of Poems by Nikki Grimes, Amiri and Odette: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers, Rain Play by Cynthia Cotten, and Hot Day on Abbott Avenue by Karen English, which received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. He is also the author and illustrator of The Jones Family Express, as well as the Caldecott award-winning Radiant Child. Javaka invites you to visit his website at Javaka.com. Klappentext "Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City"--Visually stunning picture book biography about modern art phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat, written and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award winner Javaka Steptoe. Zusammenfassung Visually stunning picture book biography about modern art phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat, written and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award winner Javaka Steptoe.

Product details

• Authors: Javaka Steptoe, Steptoe Javaka
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780316213882
• ISBN: 978-0-316-21388-2
• Dimensions: 238 mm x 279 mm x 10 mm
• Series: LITTLE, BROWN B; LITTLE, BROWN B
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Art, music; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Basquiat, Jean-Michel, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Art, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Art / Painting, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, Paintings and painting