Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art - Softcover

Hoban, Phoebe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140236090 ISBN 13: 9780140236095

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller, this is the tragic story of the talented painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, detailing his turbulent childhood, explosive dealings with the elite art world, relationships with such figures as Andy Warhol and Madonna, and rise to fame, which led to his death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven.

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Review:

'Compulsively readable' --New York Times

'A terrific book ... most certainly the best book we will have on the never-never land of the Eighties art market' --Tony Parsons

'Hoban's portrait of Eighties Manhattan, scrupulously researched and based on hundreds of riveting interviews, is better than anything written by Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz' --Guardian

Synopsis:

The tragic story of the talented painter Jean-Michel Basquiat details his turbulent childhood, explosive dealings with the elite art world, relationships with such figures as Andy Warhol and Madonna, and rise to fame, which led to his death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven. Reprint. NYT.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140236090
• ISBN 13: 9780140236095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400