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Credits

Writer: John Cheim; Genre: Coffee Table
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BASQUIAT DRAWINGS Edited by John Cheim (Bulfinch Press, $35) His early celebrity (he came to prominence in the late '70s before he was 20) and his early death (from a drug overdose in 1988 when he was 27) will always threaten to overshadow Jean Michel Basquiat's art. The energetic, maniacal drawings reproduced here display a talent eager to encompass all of culture-from wall art to Alexander Pope-in the blink of an eye. A


 

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