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The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today When Calvin Tomkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960, he did not plan to make art and living artists his main subjects. And yet, auspiciously for the magazine and its readers, Tomkins did just that. For the last six decades, his profiles of contemporary artists, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford, have become the liveliest and most authoritative guide to the art of our time. These six volumes contain eighty-two of Tomkins’s profiles, from 1962 to 2019. Balancing insight and observation with wit, candor, and appreciation, Tomkins is a master of the profile―his indelible prose forming fascinating portraits, each a work of art in its own right.
A catalog documenting an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp's editioned readymades at Gagosian Gallery, New York, replicating his American debut at Cordier and Ekstrom in the same building in 1965 and including new essays.
First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins' biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is publishing a new and revised edition of the landmark biography to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Duchamp's first Readymade, "Bicycle Wheel," a later version of which is in MoMA's collection. Duchamp is widely considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, yet his personal life remained an enigma throughout his avidly scrutinized career. Tomkins, from his unique vantage point as both an accomplished art critic and a friend of Duchamp's since the late 1950s, presents a piercing portrait of Duchamp, adeptly analyzing his art and career while also recounting his personal life, influences and relationships. This thoroughly researched, eminently readable book is by far the most authoritative Duchamp biography.
Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in
the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary
art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting "Double Feature, "
Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to
the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years
it's been his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a
critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of
those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came
to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his
generation." So it seemed natural to make Rauschenberg the focus of
"Off the Wall," which deals with the radical changes that have made
advanced visual art such a powerful force in the world.
First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American expatriates who formed an extraordinary circle of friends in France during the 1920s. First in Paris and then in the seaside town of Antibes, they played host to a cast of some of the most memorable artists and writers of the era, including Cole Porter, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. It was in Paris that Gerald Murphy first encountered Cubist painting, which prompted him to embark on an all-too-brief career as a painter--roughly from 1922 to 1929--during which he produced 15 works, seven of which survive, and every one of which is a unique American modernist masterpiece. This dazzling phase of work was brought to a close in 1929, when one of the Murphys' sons, Patrick, was diagnosed with tuberculosis and the family returned to New York. When their second son, Boath, succumbed to meningitis in 1935, and Patrick's death followed shortly thereafter in 1937, Murphy hung up his brush. Despite the brevity of Murphy's oeuvre, the intensity of its conception and its recently acknowledged status as a crucial precedent to Pop art have elevated Murphy's reputation considerably. In 1974, The Museum of Modern Art mounted the first Gerald Murphy retrospective. Illustrated with nearly 70 photographs from the Murphys' family album and with a special section on Murphy's paintings, Living Well presents a fascinating Lost Generation chronicle as charming and enticing as the couple themselves.
Sixty Years of Photographs, back in print after many years, is one
of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major
photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976, Strand
spent his last days going over his photographic prints and his many
books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Because of his
insistence on growth and movement toward perfection throughout his
career, and to be true to his vision, the editors examined over
three thousand photographs, constituting the main body of the work
of Strand's lifetime. This volume, which includes an insightful
biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand's
correspondence, interviews, and other documents, has long been
unavailable.
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