Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, the Studio of the Street

by Glenn O'Brien and Diego Cortez

In 1981 Jean-Michel Basquiat made the momentous transition from the street to the studio. He had attracted considerable attention with his Times Square Show the summer before, and reinforced that nascent notoriety with a wall of phenomenal works in Diego Cortez's New York/New Wave at P.S. 1, which opened the following winter. A few months later, the dealer Annina Nosei offered Basquiat an independent space in which to prepare work for her September...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881586258
• ISBN13: 9788881586257
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.8" x 11.9"