Buchhart, Dieter and Tricia Laughlin Bloom (editors) — Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks

New York, Brooklyn Museum / Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc, 2015. Softcover. Red & white & color illus.dustjacket over illustrated paper-covered boards. 246 pp. color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2015 exhibition of these selected papers, notes, poems, and artwork by American artist and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). With essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Dieter Buchhart, Franklin Sirmans, and Christopher Stackhouse. Includes a selected bibliography. Much to see and consider here. Contents as follows: "Sweet bird of youth" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Basquiat's notebooks: words and knowledge, scratched and sampled / Dieter Buchhart -- Primary compositions / Franklin Sirmans -- Basquiat's poetics / Christopher Stackhouse -- Notebooks and related works: plate vommentaries / Tricia Laughlin Bloom. VG/VG .