Jean Michel Basquiat " Museum Security " First Edition Lithograph Print Large Hardcover Slipcase Pop Art Book

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This Jean Michel Basquiat " Museum Security ( Broadway Meltdown ) From a Series of Works " first edition lithograph … more This Jean Michel Basquiat " Museum Security ( Broadway Meltdown ) From a Series of Works " first edition lithograph print large hardcover slipcase Pop Art book is an incredibly special and unique book to add to your library collection.

The hardcover art book with laminated cover boards and hard slipcase box cover is published by Hirmer Verlag GMBH, printed in Italy in 2015 by Trento, lithography by Reroline Genceller, graphic design by Peter Grassinger.

It features a monograph survey of the artwork sof Basquiat with accompanied compelling text in English, German, and French language authored by curator, art historian and publisher of 10 Basquiat books Dieter Buchhart, and art critic curator Anna Karina Hofbauer, foreword by director of The Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland and chairman of Art Basel Sam Keller, with photos of Jean Michel Basquiat by Roland Hagenberg and Lee Jaffe.

Jean Michel Basquiat ( 1960 - 1988 ) was born in Brooklyn New York in 1960. His early creative career was as the Street Graffiti artist nick named " Samo " in the late 1970's on New York City's Lower East Side. By the early 1980's, with the help of his friend Andy Warhol, Basquiat began to make his emotionally charged aesthetically arresting Neo Expressionist paintings. In 1992 The Whitney Museum of Art held a major retrospective exhibition of the life works of this great American Contemporary artist and master of social commentary.

His work focused on suggestive dichotomies such as wealth vs poverty, integration vs segregation, and inner vs outer experience of the human condition. He appropriated poetry, drawing, painting, and married text and image with Abstraction and Figuration. Basquiat's works had strong social commentary and deeper truths about the individual and the power structures of racism, and criticism of colonialism and support for class struggles.

This beautiful volume focuses on a series of twelve key works by Jean Michel Basquiat, created in the spring of 1983. At a time when the artist's work was at its most complex. The " Museum Security " Series raises the subjects most important in Basquiat's oeuvre, including music, anatomy, comics, the economy, the history of African Americans and the history of art. His multi-layered exploration of socio-political issues ranging from discrimination and prejudices to capitalism, the market and subjugation reaches its pinnacle in these paintings that are both masterpiece artworks and urban poems, undertaken at the height of Basquiat's practice.

The 1st edition large format hardcover Pop Art book with slipcase cover measures 12 1/2" W X 12 3/4" H X 7/8" D, with 118 pages. It features 50 lithograph print illustrations, including 29 full-color plates, 4 double-page illustrations, exhibition installation views, and 10 photographs of Basquiat. The volume is rounded out with an artist biography, notes, and list of illustrations.

It is in excellent " like new " very clean condition with very light signs of handling. It has never been read, only opened once to be photographed. Please see photos for condition reference. It is now being offered here for an excellent price. less