{"product_id":"9780704374041","title":"Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art","description":"\u003cp\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. Phoebe Hoban's \u003cb\u003eBasquiat\u003c\/b\u003e, the first biography of this charismatic figure, charts the trajectory from the artist's troubled childhood to his volatile passage through the white art world of dealers and nouveau-riche collectors, chronicling the meteoric success and overnight burnout that made him an instant art-world myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much the portrait of an era as the portrait of an artist, \u003cb\u003eBasquiat\u003c\/b\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, and the out-of-control auction houses. Ten years after the artist's death, \u003cb\u003eBasquiat\u003c\/b\u003e resurrects both the painter and his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quartet Books (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028347732208,"sku":"9780704374041","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780704374041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}