"In Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Head - The Mind, this tension is distilled into a singular focus: the human head. Published by No More Rulers and available for $49.95 USD, the new release takes readers on an intimate journey through one of the most persistent motifs in Basquiat's prolific body of work. Sized at 11 x 15 inches, this curated volume is both art book and artifact, designed to be examined, studied, and displayed."
"The head motif was one of Basquiat's earliest and most enduring obsessions. Across the book's 75 pages, readers encounter skeletal renderings, crowned figures, and vibrantly chaotic compositions where color, line, and texture intersect to express identity, intellect, and emotion. Each piece offers a different facet of Basquiat's ongoing conversation about the human experience - one that feels as relevant today as it did in the early 1980s."
Basquiat repeatedly depicted the human head as a central motif, using crowned figures, skeletal renderings, and chaotic color to probe identity, intellect, and emotion. The heads function as anatomical studies, psychological portraits, and symbols of social status. Variations range from stripped-down skull-like forms to layered, textural compositions that merge text, line, and color. The motif maps a career arc from early downtown provocations to later global prominence, reflecting both personal vulnerability and universal human concerns. The imagery invites sustained visual analysis and rewards close attention with nuanced intersections of form, symbolism, and expressive immediacy.
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