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Book

Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Call Number

  • J 921 BASQUIAT (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2016].

Physical Description

40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Summary

Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.

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