Jean-Michel Basquiat. Composition. The Notebooks. Histoire de l’archéologie au coeur d'une oeuvre expressionniste

au coeur d'une oeuvre expressionniste atypique

C’est le memorandum d’une vie de création intense et discrète

à l’initiative de Henry de Lumley

tout en révélant aux yeux des autres une part invisible de soi-même

Loin d'une perspective eurocentrée et d'un discours soi-disant universaliste

Jean-Michel Basquiat. Composition. The Notebooks. Histoire de l’archéologie au coeur d'une oeuvre expressionnisteA facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooks. Brooklyn born Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressionist