JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT - OF SYMBOLS AND SIGNS

This exciting, color filled retrospective monograph offers new insights into Basquiat's unique visual language and helps illuminate messages about political and social issues that feel as urgent today as they did a half century ago.  This book shows how Basquait used an intricate network of signs and symbols to challenge the very system that made him a darling of the art world.  It traces his inspiration from cartoons, children's drawings, and advertising as well as his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage; discusses the influence of African American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; and shows how Basquiat incorporated into his work classical themes and contemporary icons - from athletes to musicians.  

Hardcover

9.75" x 11.75"

216 pages