{"product_id":"jean-michel-basquiat-of-symbols-and-signs-9783791379579","title":"Jean-Michel Basquiat: Of Symbols and Signs","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean-Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy--not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultural issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis exciting book shows how Basquiat 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. What becomes clear is how, even as a young man, Basquiat had a profound understanding of the artist's role in art history, and of his unique position as a young Black artist in a world of racism, suppression and social injsutice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book helps readers decode Basquiat's unique\u003ci\u003e lingua franca\u003c\/i\u003e, an intoxicating body of work brimming with social commentary that was in turns incisive, angry, comic, hip, and heartbreaking, and that remains powerful and meaningful today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIETER BUCHHART is an international guest curator and Basquiat specialist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eANTONIA HOERSCHELMANN is Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Albertina Museum, Vienna. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKLAUS ALBRECHT SCHRÖDER is Director of the Albertina in Vienna.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prestel Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727101432082,"sku":"9783791379579","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9d33d48-7d2e-4a4f-92f4-ca831c8dbc71.jpg?v=1734892261","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jean-michel-basquiat-of-symbols-and-signs-9783791379579","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}