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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix Paperback - 2005
by Young, Kevin
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- Title To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
- Author Young, Kevin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2005-09-27
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 037571023X.G
- ISBN 9780375710230 / 037571023X
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.14 x 0.91 in (22.71 x 15.60 x 2.31 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Artists, Basquiat, Jean-Michel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005040841
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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ART-WORLD PHENOMENON Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and black American cultural icons." To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the harmony and discord of Basquiat's canvases, adapting them as a bass line to improvise and play upon. Young renders ambitious, celebratory poetry of the everyday and the exalted -- a double-album in verse, a jazz symphony, a hip-hop opera -- taking Basquiat's funkified history and making it sing.
Structured on two "discs," To Repel Ghosts shows five "sides" of the artist, exploring the rise and demise of a painter who helped break through the art world's color line, first as SAMO(c) and then as a downtown art-scene wunderkind.
Here are riffs on -- and extended rhapsodies for -- a pantheon of black genius: ballplayers, comic book and folk heroes, boxers, and especially musicians: Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Robert Johnson, and Grace Jones. This kaleidoscope of lives emerges in "To Repel Ghosts to provide a unique foil to Basquiat's own bout with fame.
As an urban epic in the tradition of Langston Hughes's "Montage of a Dream Deferred and Federico Garcia Lorca's "Poet in New York, "To Repel Ghosts poignantly charts Basquiat's era, its popular, social, and racial energies and excesses. An album of our times, it is a powerful statement on a now-gone genius, and our recently completed century.
Structured on two "discs," To Repel Ghosts shows five "sides" of the artist, exploring the rise and demise of a painter who helped break through the art world's color line, first as SAMO(c) and then as a downtown art-scene wunderkind.
Here are riffs on -- and extended rhapsodies for -- a pantheon of black genius: ballplayers, comic book and folk heroes, boxers, and especially musicians: Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Robert Johnson, and Grace Jones. This kaleidoscope of lives emerges in "To Repel Ghosts to provide a unique foil to Basquiat's own bout with fame.
As an urban epic in the tradition of Langston Hughes's "Montage of a Dream Deferred and Federico Garcia Lorca's "Poet in New York, "To Repel Ghosts poignantly charts Basquiat's era, its popular, social, and racial energies and excesses. An album of our times, it is a powerful statement on a now-gone genius, and our recently completed century.
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- Library Journal, 10/01/2005, Page 82