Basquiat book biography williams
An expert’s guide to Jean-Michel Basquiat: four must-read books on the American artist
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“A wonderful publication, not only about the artist but also about his close relationship with his family and friends”
The American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat led a whirlwind existence, harnessing the urgency of street art and taking the 1980s New York art world by storm before his untimely death in 1988, aged just 27. Since then, his legend has grown while prices for his work have sky rocketed. He has been the subject of several major institutional shows recently, many of which have been curated by the Basquiat expert Dieter Buchhart.The latest one, a look at Basquiat’s collaborations with Andy Warhol, opens at Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton this month. As well as recommending essays by the likes of Okwui Enwezor in previous catalogues he has worked on—Fondation Beyeler’s in 2010 and Fondation Louis Vuitton’s in 201