Abstract
dc:descriptionPrevious analyses of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960--88) tend to focus on decoding these drawings and paintings, while almost completely ignoring those elements that cannot be tied to a specific (and static) iconography or historical lineage of influence. Yet, the iconographic isolation of specific symbols and icons considers neither how the visal and verbal signs within these works constitute meaning nor what they may reveal about Basquiat's own artistic concerns. For this body of work, it is not enough to decode signs and symbols; we must also try to discern meaning in their interactions and in the artist's protocols of construction. Following the title of this dissertation, I approach Basquiat's work as a complete (and partially unknown) language that must be considered on its own terms.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Art History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Saggese, Jordana Moore
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Fineberg, Jonathan
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI3337912
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72580