Basquiat

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A beautiful book, superb color images. Printed in Slovakia. I told a friend, "If you buy this book, you can have a billion dollars' worth of art for less than twenty dollars. To look at, not to flip."

Jean- Michel Basquiat's now world famous art had its gestation in the pseudonym SAMO [an acronym and a corrupted shortening of the phrase "SAMe OLd S***"] with which he signed his spray painted sayings on walls and buildings in SoHo.[Manhattan,N.Y.] According to to the author, Leonhard Emmerling---"In essence, the SAMO religion was a retort against the way in which society uses values and ideals, an art product tailored to a starched society". The following are some of Basquiat's SAMO musings and some of my own interjected: "SAMO as announcing the unheroic gringo pilot, Paul Tibbets dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima from the plane "AnolaGay". "SAMO as hearing the voice of Charlie Parker-- They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But man, there's no boundary line to art"." SAMO as suggesting Egypt is in Africa". "SAMO as a John Coltrane country preacher cool". "SAMO like works of art, people are suppressed". SAMO as those who fear the truth oppose its exposure". "SAMO as jazz is the music of Americans who were not allowed to be Americans"." SAMO as seeing Miles Davis as a "prince of light" and not "darkness".SAMO as suggesting death is a passage, a door into a different form of existence". SAMO as pledging to avenge the criminal triumph of falsehood over truth". As the writer,Franklin Sirmans states in his essay "In the Cipher"[ Basquiat and Hip-Hop Culture]: As "Gringo Pilot suggest,Basquiat's poetics were acutely political and unabashedly direct in their commentary on colonialism, racism, and class warfare". This critical awareness in the art of Basquiat is what the film-"Basquiat" by Julian Schnabel obfuscates.

A perfect book for an ardent Basquiat fan!

America's most influential artist of the 20th century.

I've read other books in pertinence to Basquait and as childish as this may sound, I really enjoyed this one due to the saturation of art on every page! I've noticed that an enormous amount of people are intrigued by Basquiat's "live fast, die young" kind of rockstar persona and have completely missed the most important aspect of what he even lived and died for: his art. Much like any other brilliant artist, everything you want to know about him is right there in his paintings. Even his SAMO graffiti showed you his sporadic train of thought and strangely enough his own evolution. Do yourself a favor and pick this up. It's an incredible bargain for this price.

The book is super complete and really interesting. My friend loved it!!!!!!

He was troubled. He was sad. He was an addict. He was incredible. The son of a mentally ill woman, you can see in some of his paintings, the absolute confusion in his mind. I love him. His art is forever. This book details a lot of it, and tells stories about him. Well worth it.

Bel ouvrage où l’on a l’essentiel de Basquiat, bien illustré également Je recommande

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Excelente livro pra quem é fã Ótimo acabamento

en cuestión de libros de arte, su principal problema es que suelen se excesivamente caros. si bien este no es el tomo más exhaustivo qué hay sobre basquiat, si es quizás el más accesible, y tomando esto en principal consideración me parece que es excelente.

Good paper quality, good print. Basquiat ofcourse is a mind to sneak into. Book is detailed and insightful.