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10 Artist Biographies Everyone Should Have On Their Shelves
If you are looking for an escape from the news and the noise, try our list of award-winning memoirs and artist biographies to add to your &#;to-read&#; shelf.
Our reading list evokes both the artists’ inner lives and their connections to their contemporaries and the art scene, whilst others shed light on the complexity of these figures and meditate on existential questions. We spotlight a selection of books drawing from previously unpublished letters and personal notes, through the scandalous &#;80s New York art scene to never-before-seen interviews and contemplations on the purpose of making art.
Widow Basquiat
by Jennifer Clement,
Instead of writing a classic artist biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, award-winning author Jennifer Clement chronicles her close friend Suzanne Mallouk&#;s love affair with Basquiat in an emotionally resonant prose. Drawing from Mallouk&#;s memories, Clement takes us through the mesmerizing and wild s New York art scene and goes into the pure but often abusive relationship Mallouk and Basquiat had, through the collateral damages of drug habits and suffocating paranoia. In the end, it is the story of Mallouk’s life, but also gives glimpses of who Basquiat was through his &#;w
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- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
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10 Artist Biographies To Read This Year
What would the winter holidays be without those warm, comforting afternoons spent under the blankets or close by the chimney? If you&#;ve exhausted all the classics of French literature and the summer&#;s bestsellers, why not try another genre: the artists&#; biography? Since many artists have lived thrilling lives, Artsper suggests these biographies of artists whose lives make for a compelling novel!
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Dazzling Epic of the Precursor of Street Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat (), whose works can be found on Artsper, was undoubtedly one of the artists who made the biggest impressions on the New York underground art scene in the s.
Born in Brooklyn, this African-American with a rebellious temperament left school when he was a teenager to devote himself to his passion: art. His personal graffitis were quickly noticed for their tribal signs and naïve characters. Criticizing consumerism and the exclusion of ethnic communities, Basquiat has his first exhibition at the age of This remarkable arrival brought him to the forefront of the art scene.
These profoundly violent, tortured works relate to art brut and include numerous evocations of death. This work continued to torment him until his death, caused by an over