Jean-Michel Basquiat
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  alternate name: African American artists
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  alternate name: New York (State)--New York
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  alternate name: Street art--New York (State)--New York--20th century
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  alternate name: African Americans in art
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  alternate name: Street art
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  alternate name: African American artists--New York (State)--New York--20th century
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  alternate name: African Americans in art--Exhibitions
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3106752
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131838
abstract: This exciting, colour-filled retrospective monograph offers new insights into Basquiat's unique visual language and helps illuminate messages about political and social issues that feel as urgent today as they did a half-century ago. Jean-Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy - not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultural issues. This exciting book shows how Basquiat used an intricate network of signs and symbols to challenge the very system that made him a darling of the art world. It traces his inspiration from cartoons, children's drawings, and advertising as well as his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage; discusses the influence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; and shows how Basquiat incorporated into his work classical themes and contemporary icons--from athletes to musicians. What becomes clear is how, even as a young man, Basquiat had a profound understanding of the artist's role in art history, and of his unique position as a young Black artist in a world of racism, suppression and social injustice. This book helps readers decode Basquiat's unique lingua franca, an intoxicating body of work brimming with social commentary that was in turns incisive, angry, comic, hip, and heartbreaking, and that remains powerful and meaningful today.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310103177
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31016639
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31051752
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31144113
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3106752
language: eng
language: ger
is part of: Albertina exhibition ;
name: Of symbols and signs
position: 573
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Foreword / Klaus Albrecht Schröder -- Basquiat's polyvocal symbolic language / Dieter Buchhart -- Black and white all over: poetry and desolation painting / Francesco Pellizzi -- Attentive and generous / Ouattara Watts in conversation with Anna Karina Hofbauer -- Works / with quotations by Jean-Michel Basquiat
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Includes translation
temporal coverage: 1900-1999
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301328720

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