Jean Michel Basquiat Estate " King for a Decade " Vintage 1997 First Edition Pop Art Book

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This Jean Michel Basquiat Estate " King for a Decade " rare vintage 1997 first edition Pop Art book is … Read more This Jean Michel Basquiat Estate " King for a Decade " rare vintage 1997 first edition Pop Art book is an incredibly special and unique book to add to your library collection.

The softcover art book with double fold-over hard paperboard satin finish laminated covers is published by Korinsha Press & Co. Ltd, printed and bound in Japan in 1997 by Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. It features a monograph survey collection of the artworks of the artist Jean Michel Basquiat, edited by Taka Kawachi, book designer Hidekao Ohe for Korinsha Press. All Basquiat artworks copyright 1997 The Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat.

Jean Michel Basquiat ( 1960 - 1988 ) was born in Brooklyn New York in 1960. His early creative career was as the Street Graffiti artist nick named " Samo " in the late 1970's on New York City's Lower East Side. By the early 1980's with the help of his friend Andy Warhol, Basquiat began to make his emotionally charged aesthetically arresting Neo Expressionist paintings. In 1992 The Whitney Museum of Art held a major retrospective exhibition of the life works of this great American Contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

His work focused on suggestive dichotomies such as wealth vs poverty, integration vs segregation, and inner vs outer experience of the human condition. He appropriated poetry, drawing, painting, and married text and image with Abstraction and Figuration. Basquiat's works had strong social commentary and deeper truths about the individual and the power structures of racism, and criticism of colonialism and support for class struggles.

This brilliant insight into the life and art of the elusive figure, " King for a Decade " is a combination of the art of Jean Michel Basquiat together with photographs of the artist and his life, and interviews with people close to him, compiled by editor Taka Kawachi, among those interviewed are colleagues in The Noise Band Gray, the musician and actor John Lurie, author Glen O'Brien, gallery owners Mary Boone and Bruno Bischofberger, with additional included comments by Maripol, Fab % Freddy, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Richard Marshall, Paige Powell, Tony Shafrazi, and Jeffrey Deitch. This special volume is completed with an artist chronology and editor kawachi's essay on the issue of race in Basquiat's work titled " Don't Call Me a Black Artist ".

The rare out of print 1st edition Pop Art book measures 6 3/4" W X 9 1/2" H X 3/4" D, with 165 pages. It features 95 illustrations in color and black-and-white.

It is in excellent " like new " clean vintage condition consistent with age, light signs of handling and very light minor wear. Please see photos for condition reference. It is now being offered here for an excellent price. See less