Jean-Michel Basquiat. Composition. The Notebooks.A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooks. Brooklyn born Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressionist