{"product_id":"9780063442184","title":"Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art","description":"The bestselling biography of the controversial artist, and a vivid account of the fast times in which he lived--and died\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePainter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went from being a teenage graffiti writer to an international art star; he was dead of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. Basquiat's brief career spanned the giddy '80s art boom and epitomized its outrageous excess, from its art dealers to its drug dealers, from its clubs to its galleries. A legend in his own lifetime, Basquiat became a fixture in the downtown scene and got involved with many of the period's most celebrated personalities, including Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Madonna. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhoebe Hoban's \u003ci\u003eBasquiat\u003c\/i\u003e, the first biography of this charismatic figure, charts the trajectory from the artist's troubled childhood to his volatile passage through the art world of white dealers and nouveau-riche collectors. As much the portrait of an era as the portrait of an artist, \u003ci\u003eBasquiat\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive expose of the eighties art market that paints a vivid picture of the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, the East Village art scene, the avaricious dealers, and the out-of-control auction houses. Ten years after the artist's death, Basquiat resurrects both the painter and his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e* Basquiat appeared on the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller lists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compulsively readable. . . there is enormous value in it, especially in Hoban's depiction of the glitzy 1980s art world, which is sharply etched and deadly accurate.\" --Patricia Bosworth, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e  ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041331888368,"sku":"9780063442184","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780063442184_p0.jpg?v=1763634689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780063442184","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}