Rene Ricard was an artist, poet, and art critic credited with launching the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat in a 1981 issue of Artforum with the essay "The Radiant Child." He was a fixture of New York's art world from his arrival there in 1965 to his death in 2014. Robert Farris Thompson is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor at Yale University's History of Art Department. He specializes in African and African American Art and has published extensively on the topic over the course of his long career.
"With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings,
this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his
critical place in contemporary art history."
-THE NEW AMERICAN
In [the Brooklyn Museum's] sparkling if sometimes arcane
exhibition, the contents of eight notebooks, supplemented by
several paintings and large drawings, trace the evolution of
Basquiat’s loquacious pictorial style. Time spent with the catalog
enhances the experience."
- The New York Times
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