Radiant Child is a gorgeous, humanizing portrait of the artist, for young readers ages 6-12. No one is talking about his genius, no one is talking about his humanity.” “There’s this narrative where people speak about Basquiat-he’s primitive, he’s a wild child,” says Javaka Steptoe, the author and illustrator of Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.īut that narrative belies the intention behind the postmodernist painter’s bold, brilliant art, he says: “It’s because of the drugs, it’s because he has a mental illness-it’s everything but him. “Radiant, wild, a genius child” are just some of the words people use to describe Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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