Basquiat. Boom for real

Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century. A pioneering prodigy of the downtown New York scene in the late 1970s and 80s, Basquiat worked as a poet, performer, graffiti artist and musician before becoming internationally renowned as a painter. This exciting publication features essays by Dieter Bachhart, Eleanor Nairne, Christian Campbell, Carlo McCormick, Glenn O'Brien, Francesco Martinelli and Jordana Moore Saggese, alongside a wealth of rare archival material and photography, much of which is reproduced for the first time.