
Marcel Duchamp
The Afternoon Interviews
Paul Chan(Editor)
Badlands Unlimited (Publisher)
Published on 28. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
110 pages
978-1-936440-39-9 (ISBN)
Description
Revelatory, previously unpublished interviews with Duchamp from his biographer and greatest champion
In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and surprising as life itself. Those interviews have never been edited and made public, until now. The Afternoon Interviews, which includes an introductory interview with Tomkins reflecting on Duchamp as an artist, guide and friend, reintroduces the reader to key ideas of his artistic world and renews Duchamp as a vital model for a new generation of artists. Calvin Tomkins was born in 1925 in Orange, New Jersey. He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960. His many profiles include John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman and Jasper Johns. Tomkins is the author of 12 books, including The Bride and the Bachelors (1965), Living Well Is the Best Revenge (1971), Lives of the Artists (2008) and Duchamp: A Biography (1996).More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
7 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
135 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936440-39-9 (9781936440399)
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