BASQUIAT

The outsider insideFrom the streets to the galleries: the artist who turned the institutionupside downFrom the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries,young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted tointernational fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. Thesubject of a feature film by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is oneof the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. This bookexplores his short but prolific career.