JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT - THE ICONIC WORKS BOOK (ENGLISH)

This volume brings together the most outstanding works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York artist known for addressing sociopolitical themes such as race, police brutality, and structural inequality.

The publication accompanies an exhibition at the Brant Foundation, located in Manhattan, where key pieces by Basquiat are presented, contextualized in his home neighborhood, the East Village.

Curator Dieter Buchhart selects one hundred representative works that reflect recurring themes in the artist's production, such as jazz, anatomy, sports, comics, classical literature, the African diaspora, and art history.

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

Buchhart also examines key aspects of the author's artistic development.
Language: English.