Jean-Michel Basquiat:

For the first substantive biography in over twenty-five years, art world insider Doug Woodham conducted more than 100 interviews — with family members, friends, lovers, gallery owners, collectors, musicians, academics and other artists — to weave a thoughtful and revealing account of Basquiat’s life, work and legacy. Woodham’s account takes readers from the artist’s rich and complex family background through to his commercial and critical resurrection — an ascent that has played a role in reshaping the art-world. In the process, he has also crafted a unique account of how the twenty-first century art world selects its icons and cements their place in history. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon examines key aspects of the artist’s life such as his childhood trauma, sexuality, cultural identities and struggles with addiction — topics long downplayed in the museum and art world, arguably due to the controlling role played by his estate. Simultaneously Woodham uncovers the previously untold story of how a few against-the-grain speculators and gallerists — plus his deftly skilled and strategic father, the band U2 and a bestselling children’s book — all contributed to bringing what Basquiat accomplished back to the centre of the conversation and in the process helped to birth a new era in contemporary art. źródło opisu: materiały wydawcy