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By Calvin Tomkins (contributor)
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9780300189254 | Yale Univ Pr, January 28, 2013, cover price $45.00

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By Calvin Tomkins (introduced by)
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9781611454994 | Arcade Pub, May 1, 2012, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: “Brilliantly illuminating . . . This latter-day Vasari puts his dry wit and keen eye to work in fashioning enduring portraits of ten contemporary-art stars, tracing the fruits of creative genius back to their strange roots.”—VogueFor more than four decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language...read more
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9780805088724 | Henry Holt & Co, October 28, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Whether writing about Jasper Johns or Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman or Richard Serra, Calvin Tomkins shows why it is both easier and more difficult to make art today.

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9780805091441 | Henry Holt & Co, January 5, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: “Brilliantly illuminating .

Miscellaneous:

9781429946414 | 1 edition (Henry Holth & Co, January 5, 2010), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant...read more
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9780312425852 | Picador USA, November 29, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art.

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Featuring a new introduction by the author, a portrait of Gerald and Sara Murphy, members of the circle of famous artists and writers in the Roaring Twenties, includes the sixty-seven photographs of the first edition. (view table of contents)
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9780679603085 | Modern Library, November 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A portrait of Gerald and Sara Murphy, members of the circle of famous artists and writers in the Roaring Twenties

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9780525482499 | E P Dutton, October 1, 1982, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Penetrating portrait of Gerald and Sara Murphy focuses on their friendship with the Fitzgeralds and their life in Europe during the 1920s

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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
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9780805008234 | Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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

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9780805057898 | Reprint edition (Owl Books, March 1, 1998), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 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

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Profiles the life and career of the Russian-born photographer, art director of Vogue for twenty years, and editorial director for all Conde Nast magazines for three decades. 12,500 first printing.
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9780394579641 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Profiles the life and career of the Russian-born photographer, art director of Vogue magazine for twenty years, and editorial director for all Conde Nast magazines for three decades

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Looks at paintings, sculpture, drawings, and videotapes by modern women artists and offers brief profiles of each individual (view table of contents)
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9781558591615 | Reprint edition (Abbeville Pr, March 1, 1991), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Looks at paintings, sculpture, drawings, and videotapes by modern women artists and offers brief profiles of each individual

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Presents illustrations of Jennifer Bartlett's paintings, sculptures, and architectural commissions and examines the development of her art
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9781558591257 | 2 sub edition (Abbeville Pr, September 1, 1990), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents illustrations of Jennifer Bartlett's paintings, sculptures, and architectural commissions and examines the development of her art

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9780805010343 | Rev upd su edition (Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1989), cover price $24.95

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Views on contemporary art, artists in vogue, the multi-million-dollar price tags on paintings, changing styles, and controversies in the art world are compiled in a thought-provoking collection
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9780805006636, titled "Post-To-Neo: The Art World of the 1980's" | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Views on contemporary art, artists in vogue, the multi-million-dollar price tags on paintings, changing styles, and controversies in the art world are compiled in a thought-provoking collection

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9780140120912 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 1989), cover price $8.95

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Shows how Lichtenstein created a five-story-high mural fro the lobbey of the Equitable in New York City, and discusses the artist's background
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9780810923560 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1988, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: Shows how Lichtenstein created a five-story-high mural fro the lobbey of the Equitable in New York City, and discusses the artist's background

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Looks at the personalities who have shaped modern American art from the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the rise of abstract expressionism to the explosion of styles that began in the 1960s
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9780140058123 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1981), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Looks at the personalities who have shaped modern American art from the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the rise of abstract expressionism to the explosion of styles that began in the 1960s

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9780893810825 | Aperture, April 1, 1978, cover price $400.00

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Reviews Duchamp's life and career paying special attention to the modern impact of his anti-art works of the 1920's and 1930's
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9780809402366 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1977, cover price $19.94 | About this edition: Reviews Duchamp's life and career paying special attention to the modern impact of his anti-art works of the 1920's and 1930's

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The widespread influence of Marcel Duchamp is revealed in these portraits of four modern artists of dissimiliar backgrounds and creative interests
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9780670002481 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1976, cover price $3.25 | About this edition: The widespread influence of Marcel Duchamp is revealed in these portraits of four modern artists of dissimiliar backgrounds and creative interests

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Product Description: Nonfiction: Art History
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9780821203972 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Nonfiction: Art History

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