Basquiat : A Quick Killing in Art

by Hoban, Phoebe (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140236095
• ISBN10: 0140236090
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went from being a teenage graffiti writer to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiat's brief career spanned the giddy '80s art boom and epitomized its outrageous excess, from its art dealers to its drug dealers, from its clubs to its galleries. A legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat became a fixture in the downtown scene and got involved with many of the period's most celebrated personalities, including Keith Hating, Andy Warhol, and Madonna.

Phoebe Hoban's Basquiat, the first biography of this charismatic figure, charts the trajectory from artist's troubled childhood to his volatile passage through the art world of white dealers and nouveau-riche collectors. As much the portrait of an era as the portrait of an artist, Basquiat is an incisive expose of the eighties art market that paints a vivid picture of the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, the East Village art scene, the avaricious dealers, and the out-of-contr

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Overdosing on Art	p. 1
The Not-So-Brave New Art World	p. 6
Samo is Born	p. 16
Graffiti Bridge	p. 32
New York Beat	p. 43
Lower East Side Glamor Queens	p. 54
New York/New Wave/ New Career	p. 64
Dungeons and Dragons	p. 82
Crosby Street: Up There	p. 98
The Pig Merchant	p. 111
Go-Going with Larry	p. 117
To Repel Ghosts	p. 131
Maos and Cash Cows: Bruno Bischofberger's Art of Commerce	p. 142
Fun: The Baby Boomers' Bohemia	p. 151
Who's That Girl?	p. 160
California Suite	p. 172
The Color of Money: The Art Market of the Eighties	p. 183
Andy's Children	p. 199
Boone Means Business	p. 221
Theme Girl	p. 238
Peaking	p. 245
Sidekicks	p. 253
Nothing is for Everlast	p. 263
Perishable	p. 270
Riding with Death	p. 283
Most Young Kings Get thier [sic] Head Cut Off	p. 297
Basquiat Recycled: From Fakes to Films	p. 312
Epilogue: Channel-Surfing in Paint	p. 332
Afterword	p. 345
Notes and Sources	p. 353
Acknowledgments	p. 375
Index	p. 379
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