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Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
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 ...Show more
Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
"Brilliantly illuminating . . . This latter-day Vasari puts his dry wit and keen eye to work in fashioning enduring portraits of ten contemporary-art stars, tracing the fruits of creative genius back to their strange roots."--"Vogue"For more than four decades Calvin Tomkins's incisive profiles in "The N ...Show more
Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art
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 duri ...Show more
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews by Calvin Tomkins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and su ...Show more
The Lives of Artists by Calvin Tomkins; David Remnick (Introduction by)
$200.00 AUD
Category: Art
The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to todayIn 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his sixdecade- long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contribut ...Show more
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