Basquiat - Catalogue of the Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, 2010

American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) quickly became one of art history's most luminescent personalities; his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Madonna, as well as his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven, are the stuff of legend. This retrospective publication traces the artist's unique career and pinpoints his important position in art history. Basquiat's works are marked by the kind of intensity and energy that also determined the course of his brief life. In just eight years-comparable to the career of Egon Schiele-Basquiat not only managed to create an extensive oeuvre, but also to establish new figurative and expressive elements alongside Conceptual and Minimal Art. At the age of twenty-one, he became the youngest artist ever to be invited to the documenta, while his work also anticipated that of Germany's Junge Wilde movement and the art of the nineties. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2592-7)
 
Exhibition schedulde: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, May 9-September 5, 2010

About the author

Dieter Buchhart arbeitet als Kunstkritiker für Kunstforum International und andere Kunstmagazine.

Summary

American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) quickly became one of art history’s most luminescent personalities; his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Madonna, as well as his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven, are the stuff of legend. This retrospective publication traces the artist’s unique career and pinpoints his important position in art history. Basquiat’s works are marked by the kind of intensity and energy that also determined the course of his brief life. In just eight years—comparable to the career of Egon Schiele—Basquiat not only managed to create an extensive oeuvre, but also to establish new figurative and expressive elements alongside Conceptual and Minimal Art. At the age of twenty-one, he became the youngest artist ever to be invited to the documenta, while his work also anticipated that of Germany’s Junge Wilde movement and the art of the nineties. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2592-7)


 


Exhibition schedulde: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, May 9–September 5, 2010

Product details

• Authors: Diete Buchhart, Glen O'Brien, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Loui Prat, Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Louis e Prat, Susanne Reichling
• Assisted by: Jean-Michel Basquiat (Illustration), Basel (Editor), Fondatio Beyeler (Editor), Fondation Beyeler (Editor), Fondation Beyeler Riehen (Editor), Buchhart (Editor), Buchhart (Editor), Dieter Buchhart (Editor), Dieter Burchhart (Editor), Fondation Beyeler (Editor), Riehen Fondation Beyeler (Editor), Riehen/Basel Fondation Beyeler (Editor), Sam Keller (Editor)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2010
• EAN: 9783775725934
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-2593-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 320 mm x 330 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1629 g
• Illustrations: 334 Abb.
• Series: Zeitgenössische Kunst
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts; Kunst, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Zeitgenössische, Graffito, Malerei,