Binding: Paperback
Description: Police brutality racism graffiti and the art world of the early - 1980s Lower East Side converge in one painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat Jean - Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring's studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police custody after being arrested for allegedly tagging a New York City subway station. Defacement is the starting point for the present volume which focuses on Basquiat's response to anti - black racism and police brutality. Basquiat's Defacement : The Untold Story explores this chapter in the artist's career through both the lens of his identity and the Lower East Side as a nexus of activism in the early 1980s an era marked by the rise of the art market the AIDS crisis and ongoing racial tensions in the city. Texts by Cha dria La Bouvier Nancy Spector J. Faith Almiron and Greg Tate are supplemented by commentary from artists and activists such as Luc Sante Carlo Mc Cormick Jeffrey Deitch Kenny Scharf Fred Braithwaite and Michelle Shocked who were part of this episode in New York City's history which parallels today's urgent conversations about state - sanctioned racism. Basquiat's painting is contextualized by ephemera related to Stewart's death including newspaper clippings and protest posters samples of artwork from Stewart's estate and work made by other artists in response to Stewart's death and the subsequent trial including pieces by Haring Andy Warhol David Hammons George Condo and Lyle Ashton Harris.
Title: Basquiats Defacement: The Untold Story
Author(s): Almiron Johanna F.
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications U. S.
Barcode: 9780892075485
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/23/2019
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs