Tomkins, Calvin
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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Tomkins, Calvin (1925– ). American writer and editor who has had a distinguished career in art journalism. He was born in Orange, New Jersey, and studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1948. From 1955 to 1959 he worked at
Newsweek magazine, and in 1960 became staff writer at the
New Yorker. His first book was
The Bride and the Bachelors (1965), a collection of profiles that features
Cage,
Duchamp,
Rauschenberg, and
Tinguely. He became friendly with Duchamp whilst interviewing him and in 1966 published
The World of Marcel Duchamp, in the Time-Life Library of Art series, the best popular account of the artist. His other books include
Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1970),
Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971) (about Gerald
Murphy),
Off the Wall: The Art World of Our Time (1980),
Post- to Neo- (1988), and
Duchamp (1997).
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