Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art - Softcover

Phoebe Hoban

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704374048 ISBN 13: 9780704374041

Publisher: Quartet Books, 2015

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art is the tragic story of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, detailing his turbulent childhood, explosive dealings with the art world and rise to fame, which led to his death from a drug overdose at the age of twenty-seven. Phoebe Hoban brings some order to the chaos of Basquiat's life and the arcane dealings of the international art market, placing him in a context alongside his contemporaries, Julian Schnabel and Keith Haring, as well as his mentor, Andy Warhol.

About this title

Review:

'Compulsively readable ... Hoban's depiction of the glitzy 1980s art world is deadline accurate' --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

About the Author:

Phoebe Hoban writes a weekly column for The New York Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quartet Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0704374048
• ISBN 13: 9780704374041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416