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A01=Phoebe Hoban
Author_Phoebe Hoban
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-B
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=210
IMPN=Quartet Books
ISBN13=9780704374041
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20150812
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Quartet Books
Subject=Biography & True Stories
WMM=135

Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

Paperback | English

By (author): Phoebe Hoban

Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art is the tragic story of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, detailing his turbulent childhood, explosive dealings with the art world and rise to fame, which led to his death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven. Phoebe Hoban brings some order to the chaos of Basquiat s life and the arcane dealings of the international art market, placing him in a context alongside his contemporaries, Julian Schnabel and Keith Haring, as well as his mentor, Andy Warhol. This, the definitive biography of the artist, chronicles the meteoric success and overnight burnout that made Basquiat an instant artworld myth. As much the portrait of an era as the portrait of the artist as a young man, the book is an incisive expose of the Eighties art market, a vivid picture of the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, the East Village art scene and the out-of-control auction houses, and resurrects both the painter and his epoch... See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Aug 2015
  • Publisher: Quartet Books
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780704374041
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