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paintings. Basquiat's brief career spanned the 1980s art boom and epitomized its outrageous excess. Already considered a legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat was a fixture of the downtown scene. Along the way, he got involved with many of the most celebrated personalities, from his friendships with
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suits. What's missing is any analysis of the degree to which Basquiat's enormous drug consumption (ca. 100 bags of heroin a day at the end) contributed to his imagery."
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that "the book remains compulsively readable. There is enormous value in it, especially in Hoban's depiction of the glitzy 1980's art world."
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was not endorsed by Basquiat's estate, but various people who were close to Basquiat contributed their recollections of him.
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wrote: "Hoban makes a strong case that racism marred the life of the dreadlocked artist in paint-spattered
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of the art," Basquiat died of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven on August 12, 1988.
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in the late 1970s. Within five years, Basquiat went from a teenage
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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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artist to an international art star renowned for his
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Index


ISBN
0-670-85477-8
Phoebe Hoban
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Viking
unauthorized biography
Brooklyn
middle-class
SAMO
lower Manhattan
graffiti
neo-expressionism
pop artists
Keith Haring
Andy Warhol
Madonna
Jimi Hendrix
Publishers Weekly
Armani
Patricia Bosworth
The New York Times
The Harvard Crimson
Open Road Media
Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Google Books

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