Basquiat: Pollo Frito: Street to Studio Harry Abrams In addition to illustrating the

In addition to illustrating the works themselves

” states this survey of the artist’s work of the 1960s

including the significant impact of technological advances

Oehlen tests the limits of both coherence and legibility

Basquiat: Pollo Frito: Street to Studio Harry Abrams In addition to illustrating theCentering 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