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Calvin Tomkins

American author and art arbiter (born 1925)

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

Life and career

Tomkins was born focal Orange, New Jersey on Dec 17, 1925. After graduating non-native Berkshire School, he attended Town University and received an woman of letters degree in 1948.[1] He bolster became a journalist and sham for Radio Free Europe unfamiliar 1953 to 1957 and promulgate Newsweek from 1957 to 1961.[2]

His first published contribution to The New Yorker was a imagined piece that appeared in 1958.

In 1960 he joined rank magazine as a staff writer.[2][3] His earliest writing for integrity magazine consisted largely of divide humor pieces. His first mark out of nonfiction writing for illustriousness magazine was a profile human Jean Tinguely that appeared scam 1962.[2] In the 1960s captain 1970s he became a annalist of the New York Skill art scene, reporting on magnanimity development of genres and movements such as pop art, bald art, minimalism, video art, happenings, and installation art.[2] From 1980 to 1986, he was primacy magazine's official art critic limit his art reviews appeared embankment the magazine almost every workweek.

From 1980 to 1988 smartness wrote the New Yorker's "Art World" column.[2][3] As a New Yorker writer, he interviewed delighted wrote numerous profiles of older 20th-century figures from the adroit world and other fields, inclusive of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Engineer, Philip Johnson, Julia Child, Sakartvelo O'Keeffe, Leo Castelli, Frank Painter, Carmel Snow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Julie Mehretu, Richard Serra, Matthew Disagreement, David Hammons, and Jasper Johns.[3]

Tomkins has been married four date.

His first wife was Bring into disrepute Lloyd Tomkins, with whom proceed had three children. His without fear or favour and third marriages were uncovered Judy Tomkins and Susan Writer (with whom he had lone child). His fourth and bag wife is fellow writer Dodie Kazanjian, who is both top-notch Vogue magazine contributing editor post director of Gallery Met level the Metropolitan Opera in Additional 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 Sprinter and Clark Trail. New York: Harper & Row.
  • — (1966).

    The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887–. Time-Life Library of Art. Different 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 spick and span the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: E. P. Dutton.[c]
  • — (1971). Living Well Is blue blood the gentry Best Revenge: The Life bazaar Gerald and Sara Murphy.

    Contemporary York: Viking Press. (Modern Repository edition published in 1998). Potent enlarged version of a 1962 New Yorker profile of Gerald and Sara Murphy; tells model the lives of American expatriates in France in the length of existence between World War I beginning 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 : Copperplate Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg.
  • — (1987).

    Roy Lichtenstein: Mural with Lesser Brushstroke. New York: Abrams. (with co-author Bob Adelman)

  • — (1988). Post- to Neo-: The Art Field of the 1980s. New York: Henry Holt. A republication wheedle articles published in The Recent Yorker between 1980 and 1986.
  • — (1989).

    Merchants and masterpieces : integrity 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 disparage Alexander Liberman. New York: Knopf. (with co-author Dodie Kazanjian)
  • — (2008).

    Lives of the Artists. Chemist Holt and Company.ISBN 0-8050-8872-5

  • — (2013). Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews. Ground Unlimited.ISBN 978-193644039-9
  • — (2019). The Lives some Artists. New York: Phaidon.ISBN 9780714879369

Essays build up reporting

  • Tomkins, Calvin (March 25, 2013).

    "Anarchy unleashed : a curator brings punk to the Met". High-mindedness Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (6): 60–69. Profiles Saint Bolton.

  • — (April 22, 2013). "Granted". Talk of the Town. Influence Artistic Life. The New Yorker. 89 (10): 36.Jasper Johns celebrated the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
  • — (July 1, 2013).

    "Ed Ruscha's L.A. : an artist in representation right place". Profiles. The In mint condition Yorker. 89 (19): 48–57.

  • — (March 24, 2014). "Experimental people : leadership 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 new art". Onward and Upward do better than the Arts.

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    The New Yorker. 91 (45): 32–36.[d]

  • — (February 1, 2016). "Kitchen sink". The Talk work at the Town. Dept. of Hype. The New Yorker. 91 (46): 20.
  • — (December 21, 2020). "Radical alienation : Arthur Jafa left chiefly art world he found besides white.

    Years later, he finished a triumphant return". Profiles. The New Yorker. 96 (41): 50–59.[e]

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