{"product_id":"art-scribe-no-51-basquiat-kathy-acker-lynne-cooke-1985","title":"ART SCRIBE No. 51 — Basquiat, Kathy Acker, Lynne Cooke, Artscribe Ltd, London, 1985","description":"\u003cp\u003eArt magazine. Softcover. Artscribe Ltd, London. Editor: Matthew Collings. March–April 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCover: Bruce McLean. Featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat (ICA London, December 1984).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mid-1980s London art magazine capturing Basquiat at a precise moment of reception in the UK. He appears twice — first through Kathy Acker's review of his ICA exhibition, written with her characteristic urgency; and again within Lynne Cooke's essay on Neo-Primitivism, where his work is folded into a broader critical debate around authorship, instinct, and cultural projection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe issue sits at an intersection: literary critique, institutional framing, and the British art context encountering Basquiat in real time. The Bruce McLean cover further grounds it within the language of British conceptual and post-performance practice of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents include: Jean-Michel Basquiat — review by Kathy Acker (p.52); Neo-Primitivism — essay by Lynne Cooke (p.16); Bruce McLean interview by Mel Gooding; reviews of Jonathan Borofsky, Richard Wilson, Ger van Elk, Ian McKeever, Chagall; report on the 2nd International Contemporary Art Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Basquiat-focused collectors, this functions less as a magazine and more as a document of early critical positioning — before the narrative settled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artscribe Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53035119149394,"sku":"BASQUIAT-ARTSCRIBE-MAG-1985","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Basquiat01.jpg?v=1774539700","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/art-scribe-no-51-basquiat-kathy-acker-lynne-cooke-1985","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}