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The first title on the notebooks of Basquiat in more than two decades, this in-depth exploration offers new insight into the celebrated artist and rarely seen selections of his work; the notebooks have never been publicly exhibited before. Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features more than 150 pages of the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings.

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With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides exceptional insights into the life and works of Basquiat. - CRAVEONLINE.COM With vibrant visuals and Basquiat's imaginative text, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his critical place in contemporary art history. - THE NEW AMERICAN

With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides exceptional insights into the life and works of Basquiat. -CRAVEONLINE.COM With vibrant visuals and Basquiat's imaginative text, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his critical place in contemporary art history. -THE NEW AMERICAN

With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides exceptional insights into the life and works of Basquiat. - CRAVEONLINE.COM With vibrant visuals and Basquiat's imaginative text, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides <b>exceptional insights</b> into the life and works of Basquiat. -<i>CRAVEONLINE.COM With <b>vibrant visuals</b> and Basquiat's <b>imaginative text</b>, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists. -<i>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</i> With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book<b> sheds new light on Basquiat's career and</b> <b>his</b> <b>critical place in contemporary art history</b>. -<i>THE NEW AMERICAN</i>

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Dieter Buchhart is an Austrian critic, art historian, and independent curator based in Vienna. He co-curated the Basquiat retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 2010. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Tricia Laughlin Bloom is Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and has taught modern art history at the New School for Social Research, in New York. Franklin Sirmans is Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and artistic director of the forthcoming Prospect 3 in New Orleans. He was co-curator of the Brooklyn Museum's Basquiat retrospective in 2005. Christopher Stackhouse is a Brooklyn-based writer and visual artist. He is an editor of the literary arts journal Fence and a founding member of This Red Door, an art and performance space in Brooklyn. Stackhouse has contributed to such periodicals as Art in America, Modern Painters, and American Poet—The Journal of The Academy of American Poets.

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