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A review by markwillnevercry
Jean-Michel Basquiat by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
2.5
This book looks great! Well, is it written well? Nah, not really. There are a couple of things, that are kinda weird looking and that catch your eye.
The topic about anatomy is picked up and then immediately dropped never to be heard again, even tho it is said that it inspired him a lot.
The drawn part says, that his mother got ill, but in the written part she was admitted to a "mental institution".
There is not a singular word about how he died nor why. This was probably done, because it is so hard to talk to children about drugs, but they could have at least said something.
And there is a point in book, where it is said that he got so famous, because he was not drawing royalty and turned towards normal people. Just a reminder that Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 and people were not drawing royalty that much for a while before that.
It was kinda weird.
The topic about anatomy is picked up and then immediately dropped never to be heard again, even tho it is said that it inspired him a lot.
The drawn part says, that his mother got ill, but in the written part she was admitted to a "mental institution".
There is not a singular word about how he died nor why. This was probably done, because it is so hard to talk to children about drugs, but they could have at least said something.
And there is a point in book, where it is said that he got so famous, because he was not drawing royalty and turned towards normal people. Just a reminder that Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in 1960 and people were not drawing royalty that much for a while before that.
It was kinda weird.