TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steptoe,Javaka
TI  - Radiant child: the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat 
SN  - 9780316213882
AV  - N6537.B233 S84 2016
U1  - BIO BAS 
KW  - Basquiat, Jean-Michel,
KW  - Artists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Collage
KW  - African American artists
KW  - Graphic arts
KW  - Picture books
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (t.p. verso)
N2  - Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work 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 and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful
ER  -