The Lives of Artists : Collected Profiles
by Calvin Tomkins
NO. 46013
New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins’s definitive collection of profiles, spanning more than fifty years. Calvin Tomkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960, but he did not plan it this way. However, he soon found his main subjects to be art and living artists. His profiles of contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns and Kara Walker have become lively and authoritative guides to the art of our time. These six volumes contain eighty-two of Tomkins’s profiles from 1962 to 2019. While balancing insight with wit, candour and appreciation, he is a master of the profile—his indelible prose forming fascinating portraits that are each works of art in themselves.
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- Format: Paperback
- Size: 203 × 140 mm (8 × 5 1/2 in)
- Pages: 1640 pp
- Illustrations: 0 illustrations
- ISBN: 9780714879369
The Author
Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960, and he has written more than a dozen books. ‘The Bride and the Bachelors’ (1961), ‘Merchants and Masterpieces’ (1970), ‘Living Well Is the Best Revenge’ (1982), ‘Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time’ (1986), ‘Duchamp: A Biography’ (1996) are just some of them.
Introduction
David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998, and has written for the magazine since 1992.
“Calvin Tomkins is one of our era’s great documentarians. His insightful and probing profiles of some of the most innovative artists are guideposts to the last sixty years of visual culture. He is an archeologist of sorts, excavating and articulating those salient aspects of an artist’s character lurking beneath the surface. Tomkins’ work will stand as an important resource for future generations.” — Marshall N. Price, Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
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The Lives of Artists : Collected Profiles
by Calvin Tomkins
NO. 46013
New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins’s definitive collection of profiles, spanning more than fifty years. Calvin Tomkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960, but he did not plan it this way. However, he soon found his main subjects to be art and living artists. His profiles of contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns and Kara Walker have become lively and authoritative guides to the art of our time. These six volumes contain eighty-two of Tomkins’s profiles from 1962 to 2019. While balancing insight with wit, candour and appreciation, he is a master of the profile—his indelible prose forming fascinating portraits that are each works of art in themselves.
£88
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