Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Title:
Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Author:
Steptoe, Javaka, 1971-
ISBN:
9780316213882
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Abstract:
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.
Personal Subject:
Subject:
| Artists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. |
| Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988 -- Juvenile literature. |
Summary:
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.