The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles

Author:   Calvin Tomkins ,  David Remnick
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780714879369


Pages:   1640
Publication Date:   17 September 2019
Format:   Paperback
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In 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 contributed dozens of profiles on the most interesting artists of the time, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. This six-volume set includes 82 of Tomkins s most significant profiles dating from 1962 to 2019. Part art history, part human interest, Tomkins offers insights and observations about the artists, their work, and the ever-changing art world they inhabit.

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Author:   Calvin Tomkins ,  David Remnick
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 12.90cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   2.912kg
ISBN:  

9780714879369


ISBN 10:   0714879363
Pages:   1640
Publication Date:   17 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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This is art history live. --Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions, The New Museum of Contemporary Art To match Tomkins in art of the brief life for keenness of wit and sharpness of observation, one must go back to Lytton Strachey. --Louis Auchincloss Tomkins's access is astonishing . . . A deft biographer, he gives a lesson in his craft: how to balance present with past, the specific with the general, personality with context, features with flaws--all in the space of 20 pages. Tomkins is a ruthless observer. . . . He is also a generous critic of the cult of artistic personality. . . . Books [from] the New Yorker have become a small industry, but not all are as intimate as this one. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)


[For] those seeking creative inspiration. -Bloomberg Businessweek


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 The Lives of Artists promises endless hours of pleasurable and enlightening reading and re-reading. More than that, it will deliver a world of new friends into your life. While the six-volume set is imposing in total, each Profile remains a wondrously intimate portrayal of its subject. -Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art Generous and insightful, Calvin Tomkins tells the story of the things we call art, and the colorful spirits called artists who make them. -Paul Chan Over his long career, he has published masterly profiles of visual artists and creative virtuosos. His pieces are marked by a keen eye for detail and an elegant understanding of an artist's relationship to her work. -David Remnick, The New Yorker For more than half a century, Calvin Tomkins has brought readers breathtakingly close to the personalities, practices, ideas, and immediate environments of many of the most significant artists and creators of our time. From Robert Rauschenberg and Nam June Paik to Julie Mehretu, Chris Ofili, and Mark Bradford, his artist profiles have charted an entire era. I cherish this volume as an invaluable resource about the art of our time. -Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem [For] those seeking creative inspiration. -Bloomberg Businessweek ...The handsome new Phaidon tome-six volumes in a fluorescent red case... Clocks in at about 1,600 pages and weighs a healthy 6 pounds. An essential and highly pleasurable record of the era, it also amounts to a sprawling, lifelong investigation into what it means to be an artist. Tomkins would go on to become the premier chronicler of the age's art scene, right up to the present... [his] prose exudes the sheer joy of writing about art. -ARTnews Longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins has compiled a massive boxed set of 82 profiles that he's written from 1962 to 2019 - from famous names like Jasper Johns to contemporary heavyweights like Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. -Bloomberg Pursuits


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Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He has written more than a dozen books, including The Bride and the Bachelors, Merchants and Masterpieces, Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Off the Wall, Duchamp: A Biography, and Lives of the Artists. David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998, and a staff writer since 1992.

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