Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood

Bringing together a range of unconventional painted supports and found-object sculptures, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood provides an innovative, in-depth look into the artist’s sculptural practice. In addition to painting and drawing on everything within his domestic spaces―refrigerators, chairs, cabinets―Basquiat made use of discarded windows and doors, mirrors, wood boards and subway tiles in his earliest creations. In a 1985 interview with Becky Johnston and Tamra Davis, he explained: “The first paintings I made were on windows I found on the street. And I used the window shape as a frame, and I just put the painting on the glass part and on doors I found on the street.”

by Dieter Buchhart (Editor), Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist), Joseph Nahmad (Foreword), J. Faith Almiron (Contributor), Ben Okri (Contributor)

- Hardcover
- 284 pages, 11.5 x 1 x 11.5 inches
- Published 2022