Calvin Tomkins Bücher
Calvin Tomkins ist ein gefeierter Autor, dessen Karriere seit 1960 eng mit The New Yorker verbunden ist. Sein umfangreiches Werk konzentriert sich auf scharfsinnige Porträts bedeutender Persönlichkeiten der Kunstwelt und bietet tiefgründige Analysen ihrer Beiträge. Tomkins' unverwechselbarer Stil zeichnet sich durch seine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit dem kreativen Prozess und den Motivationen künstlerischer Bestrebungen aus, wodurch er das Wesen ihrer Arbeit enthüllt. Sein langjähriges Engagement im Bereich der Kunstjournalistik bietet den Lesern eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Entwicklung und Dynamik der modernen Kunst.
Duchamp
- 560 Seiten
- 20 Lesestunden
A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996 The celebrated, full-scale life of the century's most influential artist. One of the giants of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp changed the course of modern art. Visual arts, music, dance, performance--nothing was ever the same again because he had shifted art's focus from the retinal to the mental. Duchamp sidestepped the banal and sentimental to find the relationship between symbol and object and to unearth the concepts underlying art itself. The author's intimacy with the subject and glorious prose style, wit, and deep sense of irony--"the only antidote to despair"--make him the perfect writer to bring this stunning life story to intelligent readers everywhere.
The bride and the bachelors
- 484 Seiten
- 17 Lesestunden
The Bride and the Bachelors, published here in a revised and expanded edition, is one of the essential art books of the last half-century. Its witty and readable accounts of the lives and work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham reveal the ways in which they influenced one another, and opened the way to new perspectives on the nature and purpose of art. The addition of Tomkins's more recent profile of Jasper Johns, as he reflects on his six-decade career, completes the cycle and provides fresh insights on the ever-shifting relationships between art and contemporary life. This edition also includes a new introduction by the author.
