{"product_id":"basquiat-a-quick-killing-in-art-9780140236095","title":"Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBasquiat: A Quick Killing in Art\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hoban, Phoebe. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140236095.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling biography of the controversial artist, and a vivid account of the fast times in which he lived--and died\n\nPainter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went from being a teenage graffiti writer to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiats brief career spanned the giddy 80s art boom and epitomized its outrageous excess, from its art dealers to its drug dealers, from its clubs to its galleries. A legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat became a fixture in the downtown scene and got involved with many of the periods most celebrated personalities, including Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Madonna.\n\nPhoebe Hobans Basquiat, the first biography of this charismatic figure, charts the trajectory from the artists troubled childhood to his volatile passage through the art world of white dealers and nouveau-riche collectors. As much the portrait of an era as the portrait of an artist, Basquiat is an incisive expose of the eighties art market that paints a vivid picture of the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, the East Village art scene, the avaricious dealers, and the out-of-control auction houses. Ten years after the artists death, Basquiat resurrects both the painter and his time.\n\n* A New York Times Notable Book\n* Basquiat appeared on the Los Angeles Times and Voice Literary Supplement bestseller lists\n\n\"Compulsively readable. . . there is enormous value in it, especially in Hobans depiction of the glitzy 1980s art world, which is sharply etched and deadly accurate.\" --Patricia Bosworth, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946737496117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0140236090","price":145.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780140236095_cdb2a4d5-9d77-4f3c-b313-de4cfbe51785.jpg?v=1778672805","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/basquiat-a-quick-killing-in-art-9780140236095","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}