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Lives of the artists / Calvin Tomkins.

by Tomkins, Calvin, 1925-

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Henry Holt and Co., 2008.

Artists -- Biography.

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States.

Art, Modern -- 20th century.

Art and society.

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Publisher description

9780805091441 (2008 pbk.)

9780805088724 (hc.)

0805088725 (hc.)

xiv, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

"A John Macrae book."

Includes index.

Preface -- Damien Hirst -- Cindy Sherman -- Julian Schnabel -- Richard Serra --James Turrell -- Matthew Barney -- Maurizio Cattelan -- Jasper Johns -- Jeff Koons -- John Currin -- Acknoweldgments -- Index -- About the author.

For more than three 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. In Lives of the Artists ten major artists are captured in Tomkins’s cool and ironic style to record the new directions art is taking during these days of limitless freedom. As formal technique and rigorous training continue to fall away, art has become an approach to living. As the author says, “the lives of contemporary artists are today so integral to what they make that the two cannot be considered in isolation.” Among the artists profiled are Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, the reigning heirs of deliberately outrageous art that feeds off the allegedly corrupting influences of capitalist glut and entertainment; Matthew Barney of the pregenital obsessions; Cindy Sherman, who manages multiple transformations as she disappears into her own work; and Julian Schnabel, who has forged a second career as award-winning film director. Tomkins shows that the making of art remains among the most demanding jobs on earth.--From publisher description.

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