Basquiat's Defacement
Subtitle: The Untold Story
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R.
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780892075485
Subjects: Basquiat, jean-michel, 1961-1988
Description: Jean-Michel Basquiat painted 'Defacement' (The Death of Michael Stewart) in 1983 to commemorate the death of a young, black artist who died from injuries sustained while in police custody after being arrested for allegedly tagging a New York City subway station. Published to accompany a focused exhibition of Basquiat's response to anti-black racism and police brutality, this catalogue explores a chapter in the artist's career through both the lens of his identity and the Lower East Side as a nexus of activism in the early 1980s.