The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles with Calvin Tomkins and Massimiliano Gioni
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Please join 192 Books and Phaidon Press for a special book signing and conversation between Calvin Tomkins and Massimiliano Gioni in celebration of the publication of The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles.
Available in a six volume deluxe slipcase edition, normally priced at $125.00 – but on sale the night of the event for the special price of $89.95.
The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today.
In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his six decade long career writing about art. He then joined the The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on the most interesting artists of the time, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. This six-volume set includes 82 of Tomkins’s most significant profiles dating from 1962 to 2019. Part art history, part human interest, Tomkins offers insights and observations about the artists, their work, and the ever-changing art world they inhabit.
Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1960 and is the author of Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews (2013), Off the Wall (2005), Duchamp: A Biography (1996), Living Well Is the Best Revenge (1971), and The Bride and the Bachelors (1968), among others. He lives in New York City with his wife, Dodie Kazanjian.
Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of the New Museum in New York, where he has curated numerous exhibitions including major solo shows by John Akomfrah, Hans Haacke, Sarah Lucas, Marta Minujin, Albert Oehlen, Chris Ofili, Raymond Pettibon, Pipilotti Rist, Nari Ward, and many others. He directed the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and curated many international exhibitions including the Gwangju Biennale (2010), Manifesta (2004), and the Berlin Biennial (2006). In May 2019 he curated “Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even” at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, and in June 2019 co-curated “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement” at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC.
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