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Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
Basquiat A Quick Killing in Art
Author: Phoebe Hoban
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. A legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat's meteoric success and overnight burnout were an instant art-world myth; his brief career s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670854776
ISBN-10: 0670854778
Publication Date: 8/1/1998
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Hoban is the perfect writer for the life of an 80's art star...she is smart and curious, an engaged cultural critic steeped in the art scene of the 1980's, well matched with her subject.
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Great book on a young American artist who worked with Andy Warhol. His life ended in tragedy.


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