Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
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Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world. This biography charts his trajectory from his troubled childhood to his volatile passage through the mostly white world of art dealers and nouveau riche collectors.Patricia BosworthThe book [is] compulsively readable. There is enormous value in it, especially in Hoban's depiction of the glitzy 1980's art world, which is sharply etched and deadly accurate. She describes a place where sex, imagination and intelligence have been so brutalized by greed and celebrity the cumulative effect is numbing. -- NY Times Book Review
PrefaceixCHAPTER ONE OVERDOSING ON ART1CHAPTER TWO THE NOT-SO-BRAVE NEW ART WORLD6CHAPTER THREE SAMO IS BORN16CHAPTER FOUR GRAFFITI BRIDGE32CHAPTER FIVE NEW YORK BEAT43CHAPTER SIX LOWER EAST SIDE GLAMOR QUEENS54CHAPTER SEVEN NEW YORK/NEW WAVE/ NEW CAREER64CHAPTER EIGHT DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS82CHAPTER NINE CROSBY STREET: UP THERE98CHAPTER TEN THE PIG MERCHANT111CHAPTER ELEVEN GO-GOING WITH LARRY117CHAPTER TWELVE TO REPEL GHOSTS131CHAPTER THIRTEEN MAOS AND CASH COWS: BRUNO BISCHOFBERGER'SART OF COMMERCE142CHAPTER FOURTEEN FUN: THE BABY BOOMERS' BOHEMIA151CHAPTER FIFTEEN WHO'S THAT GIRL?160CHAPTER SIXTEEN CALIFORNIA SUITE172CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE COLOR OF MONEY: THE ART MARKET OF THEEIGHTIES183CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ANDY'S CHILDREN199CHAPTER NINETEEN BOONE MEANS BUSINESS221CHAPTER TWENTY THEME GIRL228CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE PEAKING245CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO SIDEKICKS253CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE NOTHING IS FOR EVERLAST263CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR PERISHABLE270CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE RIDING WITH DEATH283CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN BASQUIAT RECYCLED: FROM FAKES TO FILMS312EPILOGUE CHANNEL-SURFING IN PAINT332Notes and Sources345Acknowledgments367Index371
