Books: The life and death of an art guerrilla Thank God the madness of Basquiat's life ended up in his work, says Kevin Le Gendre

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 27, 2000| Author: Kevin Le Gendre | Copyright information

Widow Basquiat

By Jennifer Clement

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The name Michael Stewart lacks the panache of Fab 5 Freddy, Rammellzee or Jean- Michel Basquiat, all names which would have been on the lips of anybody with a semblance of hipness in the New York art world of the early 1980s. The resolutely Anglo-Saxon tonality of Stewart is certainly no match for the gallic flourish of Basquiat, the brilliant but doomed painter. Yet Stewart - who died following what the book ar...

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