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Radiant Child
- Author
- Javaka Steptoe
- Narrator
- Ron Butler
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio for Young Listeners
- Publish Date
- 25 April 2017
- Run Time
- 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods and feelings
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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.
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Details
- Author
- Javaka Steptoe
- Narrator
- Ron Butler
- Duration
- 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 April 2017
- ISBN
- 9781478993476
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio for Young Listeners
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods and feelings
Synopsis
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.
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