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This book surveys authoritatively and provocatively the arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon author-courtney-watson-mccarthy Monocle has always been aWhen Jean Michel Basquiat died in 1988 at the age of twenty seven, major critics called his work a flash in the pan and the meteoric rise in the prices of his paintings started to fall back. Almost thirty years later Basquiat joined Picasso, Modigliani and Munch when one of his paintings sold for over $100 million. Nearly four decades after his untimely death, he remains one of the most recognizable artists in the world his work not only headlines