An affordable compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20thcentury artThis reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oftmisunderstood artist JeanMichel Basquiat. Guided by the steady hand of Basquiat scholar Larry Warsh it is one of the few books of this kind to be directly approved by the artists estate and family a notable distinction amid all of the buzz.JeanMichel Basquiat Handbook begins with a portrait of the young Basquiat from his years as a precocious child in Brooklyn to his rebellious teenagedom to his meteoric rise in fame to his tragic early death. The book then discusses the development of his groundbreaking style through the recurrent themes of his practice urban life the human figure music and sports to name just a few.