Calvin Tomkins
Autore di The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-
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- Nome canonico
- Tomkins, Calvin
- Data di nascita
- 1925-12-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Princeton University (BA|1948)
Berkshire School - Attività lavorative
- art critic
author
journalist - Relazioni
- Kazanjian, Dodie (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
Newsweek
Radio Free Europe
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The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 di Calvin Thomkins
Life and works of Marcel Duchamp, Dadaist, Surrealist
Garald and Sara Murphy pop up in any book about the writers, artists, and American expats living in France in the 1920s, and since I read a lot of those kinds of books, it was good to learn a little more about this couple. This lovely MoMA edition is enhanced by photos (although they are a bit small and hard to really see) and images of Gerald's paintings.
While this book might be an accurate account of what was happening in the New York art world of the '80s, the "Post- to Neo-" part is misleading--most of the essays deal with figures from earlier eras, including Noguchi, Picasso, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Leo Castelli; maybe three articles deal with young artists that emerged that decade. It's a little like calling a book Punk and New Wave and having it deal mostly with the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin. That said, Tomkins is a good writer: smart, thorough, and amusing.… (altro)
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