5 Essential Books on Jean-Michel Basquiat

Basquiat's "Defacement"

The Untold Story

Published by Guggenheim Museum.
Text by Chaédria LaBouvier, Nancy Spector, J. Faith Almiron, Greg Tate. Contributions by Luc Sante, Carlo McCormick, Jeffrey Deitch, Kenny Scharf, Fred Braithwaite, Michelle Shocked, et al.

Police brutality, racism, graffiti and the art world of the early-1980s Lower East Side converge in one painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat

PUBLISHER
Guggenheim Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 60 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/23/2019
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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 8   

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ISBN 9780892075485 TRADE
List Price: $29.95 CAD $39.95 GBP £24.95

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In stock

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling.

A superbly produced retrospective on the luminous career of Jean-Michel Basquiat

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 334 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2010
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Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 171   

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ISBN 9783775725934 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $87.00

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In stock

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox

Published by Hatje Cantz/Nahmad Contemporary.
Edited with text by Dieter Buchhart. Text by Christopher Stackhouse, Eric Robertson.

Copy, paste: Basquiat's collaged Xerox paintings presage today's sampling aesthetics

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz/Nahmad Contemporary

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 67 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/8/2019
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 18   

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ISBN 9783775745857 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $85.00

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Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Edited by Liz Munsell, Greg Tate. Text by J. Faith Almiron, Dakota DeVos, Hua Hsu, Carlo McCormick.

How hip-hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries in 1980s New York

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/5/2020
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 3   

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ISBN 9780878468713 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $69.95 GBP £35.00

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Published by Skira.
By Rudy Chiappini.

The brief but intense artistic career of this celebrated protagonist of New York's fabled downtown art scene of the 1980s

PUBLISHER
Skira

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 162 illustrations.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/12/2005
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Catalog: Publisher Backlist

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ISBN 9788876242649 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $85.00

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In stock