Catalog Jean-Michel Basquiat – Rudy Chiappini – Lugano 2005 – ISBN 9788876242380 – Book

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Jean-Michel Basquiat Catalogue, book in Italian, 2005 edition by Rudy Chiappini, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Lugano, ISBN 9788876242380, paperback, approximately 200 pages, like new, yellow slipcase with slight wear. A controversial artist, the enfant terrible of the art world, a friend of Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, an idol and victim of the 1980s art scene, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a legend in his own lifetime. This catalogue, published on the occasion of the major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Lugano, offers an excellent overview of Basquiat’s life and work. An African-American painter, Basquiat had a significant impact on the history of contemporary art.

From his beginnings as a street graffiti artist, he became one of the most influential artists of his time: in 2005, his work was celebrated in separate exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Emblems of the contemporary world, his explosive, colorful, and seemingly naive canvases possess unparalleled power. The brief but intense artistic career of this celebrated figure of the 1980s New York City art scene is traced through some fifty paintings and twenty works on paper from prestigious private collections and museums.

This book offers a new and compelling dialogue with the most modern expressions of 20th-century art.

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