Marcel Duchamp

by Calvin Tomkins, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan

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Hardcover

Published January 1, 2014

About the author

Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He wrote his first fiction piece for the magazine in 1958, and his first fact piece in 1962. His many Profile subjects have included Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Georgia O’Keeffe, Leo Castelli, Frank Stella, Carmel Snow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, and Jasper Johns. He wrote the Art World column from 1980 to 1988. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a general editor of Newsweek, a post he held from 1957 through 1959. In 1955, he joined Newsweek as an associate editor. He is the author of 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.” A revised edition of his Duchamp biography came out in 2014.

Reviews

[Chris Browning · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice companion to Tomkins’ biography: the introductory notes are just that, with a minimum of depth but enough to put novices into the right frame of mind for the art itself. Which is obviously incredible. Tomkins has most of these in black and white so it’s nice to see them in colour and get a real sense of Duchamp’s developing skill and equally assure grasp of ideas. Until I can get to Philadelphia - which is pretty likely as my wife is from the next state along - to see the originals this will more than do