To Repel Ghosts: The Remix

by Kevin Young

Book Overview

Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"), exploring the artist's bouts with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037571023X
• ISBN13: 9780375710230
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"