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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

by Javaka Steptoe
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About this book

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780316213882
ISBN10 0316213888
Series/Work OL17629468W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

African American art African American artists African American painters age:max:9 age:min:5 American Collage Artists Artists, american Artists, juvenile literature award:Caldecott_award Biography collectionID:caldecott10 Family relationships grade:max:3 grade:min:Preschool Juvenile literature lexile:1050 lexile_range:1001-1100 New York Times bestseller nyt:picture-books=2017-03-19

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