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

Author: Javaka Steptoe

Narrator: Ron Butler

Unabridged: 0 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Published: 04/25/2017

Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Art

Synopsis

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardJean-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.

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