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Basquiat
Phoebe Hoban

Basquiat

a quick killing in art

Viking (1998)
0670854778
385 pages | 6.4 x 9.4 inch
Dewey 760.092 HOB
LC Classification N6537.B233 .H63 1998
LC Control No. 98017166

Subject

  • Art - Individual artist
  • Artists - United States - Biography
  • Basquiat, Jean Michel, 1960-1988

Plot

The tragic story of the talented painter Jean-Michel Basquiat details his turbulent childhood, explosive dealings with the elite art world, relationships with such figures as Andy Warhol and Madonna, and rise to fame, which led to his death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven. 12,000 first printing.