Full Description
The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had solo exhibitions in galleries in Italy, New York, and Los Angeles. Basquiat's artistic career followed the rapid trajectory of Wall Street, which boomed from 1983 to 1987. In the span of just a few years, this Black boy from Brooklyn had become one of the most famous American artists of the 1980s. The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader is the first comprehensive sourcebook on the artist, closing gaps that have until now limited the sustained study and definitive archiving of his work and its impact.
Eight years after his first exhibition, Basquiat was dead, but his popularity has only grown. Through a combination of interviews with the artist, criticism from the artist's lifetime and immediately after, previously unpublished research by the author, and a selection of the most important critical essays on the artist's work, this collection provides a full picture of the artist's views on art and culture, his working process, and the critical significance of his work both then and now.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT IN HIS OWN WORDS
Interview by Marc H. Miller, 1982
Interview by Henry Geldzahler, 1982
Interview by Lisa Licitra Ponti, 1983
Interview by Geoff Dunlop and Sandy Nairne, 1985
Interview by Becky Johnston and Tamra Davis, 1985
Interview by Démosthènes Davvetas, 1985-1988
Interview by Isabelle Graw, 1986
BASQUIAT'S LANGUAGE
Texts by Jean-Michel Basquiat
CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM AND COMMENTARY
The Radiant Child
Rene Ricard, 1981
Schnabel and Basquiat: Explosions and Chaos
Hunter Drohojowska, 1982
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jeffrey Deitch, 1982
Jean-Michel Basquiat at Annina Nosei
Lisa Liebmann, 1982
Jean-Michel Basquiat at Fun Gallery
Susan Hapgood, 1983
Black Picasso and the Lie Detector
Diego Cortez, 1983
New Kid on the (Auction) Block
Ellen Lubell, 1984
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Kate Linker, 1984
Jean-Michel Basquiat at Boone/Werner
Nicolas A. Moufarrege, 1984
New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist
Cathleen McGuigan, 1985
Activating Heaven: The Incantatory Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Robert Farris Thompson, 1985
Art: Basquiat, Warhol
Vivien Raynor, 1985
Andy Warhol/Jean-Michel Basquiat
Robert Mahoney, 1985
Andy Warhol/Jean-Michel Basquiat
Ronald Jones, 1986
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Barry Schwabsky, 1986
KNOWING BASQUIAT
Interviews by Jordana Moore Saggese
Michael Holman, 2007
Suzanne Mallouk, 2008
Bruno Bischofberger, 2010
Robert Farris Thompson, 2011
Dieter Buchhart, 2019
Erika Belle, 2019
Diego Cortez, 2019
THE AFTERLIFE OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Jean Basquiat, 27, an Artist of Words and Angular Images
Constance L. Hays, 1988
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1960-1988
Hilton Als, 1988
Martyr without a Cause
Peter Schjeldahl, 1988
Remembering Basquiat
Keith Haring, 1988
Requiem for a Featherweight: The Sad Story of an Artist's Success
Robert Hughes, 1988
New York: More Post-Modern Than Primitive
Gregory Galligan, 1988
Saint Jean-Michel
Frederick Ted Castle, 1989
Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lonesome Flyboy in the '80s Art Boom Buttermilk
Greg Tate, 1989
Welcome to the Terrordome: Jean-Michel Basquiat and the "Dark" Side of Hybridity
Dick Hebdige, 1992
Royal Slumming: Jean-Michel Basquiat Here Below
Thomas McEvilley, 1992
Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat
bell hooks, 1993
A Day at the Races: Lorraine O'Grady on Basquiat and the Black Art World
Lorraine O'Grady, 1993
Tip-Tapping on a Tightrope
Franklin Sirmans, 1994
Famous and Dandy like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat
José Esteban Muñoz, 1996
Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix
Kellie Jones, 2005
Basquiat's Poetics
Christopher Stackhouse, 2015
Chronology
List of Illustration Credits
Index
