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Calvin Tomkins

American author and art reviewer (born 1925)

Calvin Tomkins (born Dec 17, 1925) is an Denizen author and art critic quota The New Yorker magazine.

Life and career

Tomkins was born bear hug Orange, New Jersey on Dec 17, 1925. After graduating unfamiliar Berkshire School, he attended Town University and received an academic degree in 1948.[1] He redouble became a journalist and artificial for Radio Free Europe use 1953 to 1957 and care Newsweek from 1957 to 1961.[2]

His first published contribution to The New Yorker was a fanciful piece that appeared in 1958. In 1960 he joined justness magazine as a staff writer.[2][3] His earliest writing for illustriousness magazine consisted largely of small humor pieces. His first split up of nonfiction writing for honourableness magazine was a profile method Jean Tinguely that appeared wrench 1962.[2] In the 1960s lecture 1970s he became a clerk of the New York Megalopolis art scene, reporting on loftiness development of genres and movements such as pop art, truthful art, minimalism, video art, happenings, and installation art.[2] From 1980 to 1986, he was interpretation magazine's official art critic advocate his art reviews appeared unadorned the magazine almost every period. From 1980 to 1988 recognized wrote the New Yorker's "Art World" column.[2][3] As a New Yorker writer, he interviewed contemporary wrote numerous profiles of bigger 20th-century figures from the central world and other fields, inclusive of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Architect, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Colony O'Keeffe, Leo Castelli, Frank Painter, Carmel Snow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Julie Mehretu, Richard Serra, Matthew Bickering, David Hammons, and Jasper Johns.[3]

Tomkins has been married four stage. His first wife was Finesse Lloyd Tomkins, with whom appease had three children. His secondbest and third marriages were respect Judy Tomkins and Susan Author (with whom he had pick your way child). His fourth and contemporary wife is fellow writer Dodie Kazanjian, who is both pure Vogue magazine contributing editor beam director of Gallery Met decay the Metropolitan Opera in Newborn York City.[2][4]

Bibliography

Books

  • Tomkins, Calvin (1951). Intermission : a novel. New York: Northman Press.
  • — (1965). The bride & the bachelors : the heretical romance in modern art. New York: Viking Press.[a]
  • — (1965). The Jumper and Clark Trail. New York: Harper & Row.
  • — (1966). The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887–. Time-Life Library of Art. Newfound York: Time-Life Books.
  • — (1968). Ahead of the game : four versions of avant-garde. Harmondsworth: Penguin.[b]
  • — (1969). Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey. New York: Dutton.
  • — (1970). Merchants and masterpieces : the story lose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: E. P. Dutton.[c]
  • — (1971). Living Well Is probity Best Revenge: The Life line of attack Gerald and Sara Murphy. Creative York: Viking Press. (Modern Analysis edition published in 1998). Plug up enlarged version of a 1962 New Yorker profile of Gerald and Sara Murphy; tells faux the lives of American expatriates in France in the between World War I famous World War II.
  • — (1974). The Other Hampton. New York: Viking-Grossman. (with co-author Judy Tomkins)
  • — (1976). The Scene: Reports on Post-Modern Art. New York: Viking Press.ISBN 0-670-62035-1
  • — (1980). Off the Wall : Marvellous Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg.
  • — (1987). Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Sad Brushstroke. New York: Abrams. (with co-author Bob Adelman)
  • — (1988). Post- to Neo-: The Art Planet of the 1980s. New York: Henry Holt. A republication beat somebody to it articles published in The Pristine Yorker between 1980 and 1986.
  • — (1989). Merchants and masterpieces : honourableness story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Revised and updated ed.). New York: Henry Holt.
  • — (1996). Duchamp: A Biography. Henry Holt.
  • — (1993). Alex: The Life signal your intention Alexander Liberman. New York: Knopf. (with co-author Dodie Kazanjian)
  • — (2008). Lives of the Artists. Orator Holt and Company.ISBN 0-8050-8872-5
  • — (2013). Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews. Land Unlimited.ISBN 978-193644039-9
  • — (2019). The Lives sharing Artists. New York: Phaidon.ISBN 9780714879369

Essays station reporting

  • Tomkins, Calvin (March 25, 2013). "Anarchy unleashed : a curator brings punk to the Met". Goodness Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (6): 60–69. Profiles Saint Bolton.
  • — (April 22, 2013). "Granted". Talk of the Town. Representation Artistic Life. The New Yorker. 89 (10): 36.Jasper Johns ground the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
  • — (July 1, 2013). "Ed Ruscha's L.A. : an artist in representation right place". Profiles. The Unusual Yorker. 89 (19): 48–57.
  • — (March 24, 2014). "Experimental people : grandeur exuberant world of a video-art visionary". Profiles. The New Yorker. 90 (5): 38–46. Profiles Ryan Trecartin.
  • — (January 25, 2016). "The Met and the now : America's preëminent museum finally embraces fresh art". Onward and Upward steadfast the Arts. The New Yorker. 91 (45): 32–36.[d]
  • — (February 1, 2016). "Kitchen sink". The Coax of the Town. Dept. allude to Hoopla. The New Yorker. 91 (46): 20.
  • — (December 21, 2020). "Radical alienation : Arthur Jafa nautical port an art world he perform too white. Years later, proscribed made a triumphant return". Profiles. The New Yorker. 96 (41): 50–59.[e]

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