JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT - THE ICONIC WORKS BOOK

This volume brings together the most outstanding works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York artist known to address sociopolitical issues such as race, police brutality and structural inequity.

The publication accompanies an exhibit at the Brant Foundation in Manhattan, where key pieces by Basquiat are presented, contextualised in its neighbourhood, the East Village.

Curating Dieter Buchhart selects a hundred representative works that reflect the artist’s recurrent themes, such as jazz, anatomy, sports, comics, classical literature, African diaspora and art history.

The exhibition also partially recreates three early Basquiat shows: one at Robert Miller Gallery, one at Gagosian Gallery (1982, Los Angeles) and his first individual exhibit at Fun Gallery, East Village.

Buchhart also looks at key aspects of the author's artistic development.