Duchamp: a Biography - Softcover

Tomkins, Calvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805057897 ISBN 13: 9780805057898

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Described by Jay Jacobs in Arts Magazine as "one of the best writers on any subject," Calvin Tomkins has been a New Yorker writer for thirty-five years and author of ten books including the bestselling Living Well is the Best Revenge. He lives in New York City.

Synopsis:

A portrait of one of the fathers of post-modernism reveals Marcel Duchamp's humor, originality, and charm, as well as the artist's romantic affairs and his influence on contemporary personalities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805057897
• ISBN 13: 9780805057898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 550