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title: "Basquiat and the Beats"
date: 2018-03-26
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:09:27+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/basquiat-and-the-beats-context-en/"
description: "Words, signs and symbols. Jean-Michel Basquiat's pieces are truly suffused with fragments of text. One of his most important sources of inspiration was the Beat generation's experimental cut-up technique."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Header_Schirn_Presse_Basquiat_Ausstellungsansicht_Foto_Norbert_Miguletz-5.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Basquiat and the Beats