Jean Michel Basquiat " Now's the Time " Rare Hardcover Exhibition Art Book

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This Jean Michel Basquiat " Now's The Time " rare hardcover exhibition art book is an incredibly special and unique … Read more This Jean Michel Basquiat " Now's The Time " rare hardcover exhibition art book is an incredibly special and unique book to add to your library collection.

The hardcover art book with laminated cover boards is published by The Art Gallery of Ontario and Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, printed in Canada by Mil RR Donnelly Toronto in 2015 in conjunctions with the Exhibition " Jean Michel Basquiat : Now's The Time " at The Art Gallery of Ontario in 2015. It features an expansive monograph survey of the artworks of the artist 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 charge aesthetically arresting Neo Expressionist paintings. In 1992 The Whitney Museum held a major retrospective 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 has 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 book is authored by Dieter Buchhart, featuring essays by Glen O'Brien, Francesco Pellizzi, Olivier Berggruen, Franklin Sirmans, and Christian Campbell, with a foreword by Mattew Teitelbaum.

This volume is a thematic presentation that offers a new appreciation of his tragic but highly influential career from his early years through his untimely death at the age of 27. Now more than a quarter-century later, this book considers his work in light of their transformative power. Told through the lens of Basquiat's oeuvre, how his approach and subject matter continue to influence artists around the world. With compelling text and more than 100 illustrations documenting a strong selection of the artist's masterpieces as well as many that are more obscure. All artworks copyright The Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat.

The rare out of print hardcover art exhibition book measures 10 1/8" W X 11 1/2" H X 1 1/8" D, with 229 pages, featuring 129 illustrations, an artist chronology and exhibition list or works.

It is in excellent " like new " very clean condition with very light signs of handling. It has never been read. Please see photos for condition reference. It is now being offered here for an excellent price. See less