Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art

Phoebe Hoban

Mai 2016 · Open Road Media

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A New York Times Notable Book: This national bestseller is a vivid biography of the meteoric rise and tragic death of art star Jean-Michel Basquiat

Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. In less than a decade, he went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiat’s brief career spanned the giddy 1980s art boom and epitomized its outrageous excess. A legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat was a fixture of the downtown scene, a wild nexus of music, fashion, art, and drugs. Along the way, the artist got involved with many of the period’s most celebrated personalities, from his friendships with Keith Haring and Andy Warhol to his brief romantic fling with Madonna.
 
Nearly thirty years after his death, Basquiat’s story—and his art—continue to resonate and inspire. Posthumously, Basquiat is more successful than ever, with international retrospectives, critical acclaim, and multimillion dollar sales. Widely considered to be a major twentieth-century artist, Basquiat’s work has permeated the culture, from hip-hop shout-outs to a plethora of products. A definitive biography of this charismatic figure, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art is as much a portrait of the era as a portrait of the artist; an incisive exposé of the eighties art market that paints a vivid picture of the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, the East Village art scene, and the art galleries and auction houses that fueled his meteoric career. Basquiat resurrects both the painter and his time.

 

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Phoebe Hoban has written about culture and the arts for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, ARTnews, and the New York Observer, among others. Her biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art (1998), was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book. Her biography of Alice Neel, Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty (2010), was named one of the Best Books of the Year by New York magazine, one of the Best Books of the Year by the Village Voice, one of the Top 10 Biographies by Booklist, and a Sunday Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her most recent biography, Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open, came out in April 2014. Hoban lives in New York City.