Basquiat: the Iconic Works

The most important works, gathered in one volume. Basquiat: The Iconic Works devotes itself to the exhibition at the Brant Foundation's newly opened Manhattan outpost — a landmark return of the artist's work to the East Village roots that once inspired him.

Noted Basquiat scholar and curator Dieter Buchhart brings together one hundred of the artist's most important pieces, focusing on the finest examples of the subjects that defined his practice: jazz, anatomy, sports figures, comics, classical literature, the African diaspora, and art history. The book contextualizes his powerful, sociopolitically charged output — engagements with race, police brutality, and structural inequity — within the neighborhood that shaped one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

The work that changed the language of painting.