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The Jean-Michel Basquiat XXL monograph brings together an extensive collection of paintings, drawings, and notebook sketches in a large-format volume. Edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth with commentary from curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne, it offers an in-depth look at Basquiat's career and his place within 1980s New York art culture. The content spans his signature raw figures, integrated text, and wide-ranging influences including jazz, boxing, basketball, history, and street life politics.
Taschen's best-selling Basquiat monograph is presented in an XXL volume that brings together reproductions of paintings, drawings and notebook sketches, alongside commentary by editor Hans Werner Holzwarth and curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne. The result is an up close and personal look at an art legend who is both synonymous with 1980s New York and considered to be one of the most successful artists of his time. His instantly recognisable work — which often drew on raw figures and integrated words and phrases — was inspired by everything from jazz, boxing and basketball, as well as history and the politics of street life — a multifaceted stream of influence that led Basquiat himself to describe his subject matter as a mix of 'royalty, heroism and the streets'.
