Basquiat's Defacement : the untold story / Chaédria LaBouvier.
Jean-Michel Basquiat painted 'Defacement' (The Death of Michael Stewart) 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. Published to accompany a fo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Guggenheim Museum,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Jean-Michel Basquiat painted 'Defacement' (The Death of Michael Stewart) 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. Published to accompany a focused exhibition of Basquiat's response to anti-black racism and police brutality, this catalogue explores a 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. |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of the exhibition Basquiat's "Defacement": the untold story at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 21-November 6, 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0892075481 9780892075485 |