Basquiat: Pollo Frito: Street to Studio Nick Cave Harold Rosenberg (1972)

Harold Rosenberg (1972)

He began painting as a form of liberation and emotional restoration

This book was published on the occasion of Jennifer Guidi: Heliocentric at Gagosian

In his works on paper

and thirty-six vellum sheets that reproduce photo-editing marks and comments made on some of the original shots by Johnson staff

Basquiat: Pollo Frito: Street to Studio Nick Cave Harold Rosenberg (1972)Centering on Jean Michel Basquiats important early painting Untitled (Pollo Frito) (1982), this publication analyzes the artists early career as he transitioned from street to studio. Reproducing Basquiats key works made in 1981 and 1982, the volume discusses the artists development in New York, from the graffiti he and Al Diaz created as SAMO to his role as the renowned creator of highly gestural canvases that merged the rawness of New York street