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* Read ^ Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg by Calvin Tomkins ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg Four Stars John E. Blom Good read, lots of the artists personal info into his works and relationships.. "A fascinating insider's view of the New York art world" according to A Customer. Lucky, lucky, lucky. That's how I felt after a friend lent me a copy of this out-of-print book. Here was a first hand chronicle of the New York art scene from the 50s to the 70s. Although Rauschenberg was the main artist featured, interesting vignettes about other artists were included, from Jasper Johns t. Rebec
| Title | : | Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312425856 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Four Stars John E. Blom Good read, lots of the artists personal info into his works and relationships.. "A fascinating insider's view of the New York art world" according to A Customer. Lucky, lucky, lucky. That's how I felt after a friend lent me a copy of this out-of-print book. Here was a first hand chronicle of the New York art scene from the 50s to the 70s. Although Rauschenberg was the main artist featured, interesting vignettes about other artists were included, from Jasper Johns t. Rebecca said Insightful review of Raschenberg's life and work. I had just read Tomkins exhaustive and excellent biography of Duchamp when I picked up this book to read. This book is very entertaining and eye opening yet not quite the detailed book that he wrote of Duchamp.That said, I would highly recommend you read this book, not just for the insight into Raschenberg
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." Tomkins has spent many of those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his generation." So it seemed natural to make Rauschenberg the focus of Off the Wall, which deals with the radical changes that have made advanced visual art such a powerful force in the world.Off the Wall chronicles the astonishingly creative period of the 1950s and 1960s, a high point in American art. Rauschenberg's vitally important and productive career spans this revolution, reaching beyond it to the present day. Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. In his in his collaborations with Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and as a pivotal figure linking abstract expressionism and pop art, Rauschenberg was part of a revolution during which artists moved art off the walls of museums and galleries and into the center of the social scene. Featuring the artists and the art world surrounding
“I commend Calvin Tomkins, as Bernard Berenson did Vasari, for 'being a singularly warm, generous, and appreciative critic.'” The New York Times Book Review“As chronicler of the avant-garde for The New Yorker, Calvin Tomkins has specialized in rendering the esoteric doings of artists comprehensible.” The Washington Post Book World
He lives in New York city with his wife Dodie Kazanjian.. Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960, has written more than a dozen books, including the bestseller Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Bride and the Bachelors, and his highly a
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