Jean-Michel Basquiat — TASCHEN, 2018

This monumental TASCHEN monograph is the definitive oversized edition on Jean-Michel Basquiat — a 500-page immersion into the raw genius, furious iconography, and fractured brilliance of the artist who burned through the 1980s New York art world with meteoric force. Featuring large-scale reproductions that give due space to Basquiat’s gestural density and text-driven graffiti syntax, the book allows readers to get close to the paint — the oil stick, Xerox collage, scrawl, and silence. Each spread becomes a study in repetition and rupture: masks, crowns, anatomy, capitalism, jazz, and colonial trauma rendered in obsessive semiotic loops. The format matches the work: huge, unrelenting, encyclopedic. Edited with scholarly care but designed with visceral clarity, this publication stands as both catalogue and altar, framing Basquiat not simply as a tragic icon, but as one of the most original and urgent visual thinkers of the late 20th century.

Technical Sheet
Title: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Artist / Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Date: 2018
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions (cm): 29 × 39.5 × 8.2
Language: English
Pages: 500
Publisher / Editor: TASCHEN
Condition: VERY GOOD