Here are lists of fragments and figments, found objects, ready-made memes. We see Basquiat’s radical openness to his environment and his awareness of the power in random phenomenathe derivation of signs and symbols by seemingly arbitrary and instinctive means. Eight marble notebooks, with their archetypal sketches and long lists of found phrasesdating from 1980 to 1987, and published in conjunction with the exhibition as a single facsimile volumereveal the essence of his process.
THE SHOW OF EARLY NOTEBOOKS and drawings by Jean-Michel Basquiat opening this month at the Brooklyn Museum in New York places a focus on the artist’s formative works, which might provide a clearer and more profound understanding of his artistic intentions and methods than do larger exhibitions of later pieces.
Widow Basquiat: A Love Story, by Jennifer Clement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. The Notebooks, by Jean-Michel Basquiat, edited by Larry Warsh.
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