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The Lives of Artists

Collected Profiles

by Calvin Tomkins · 2019 · 1640 pages

Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Siddhartha Mukherjee

About This Book

A comprehensive six-volume collection of eighty-two artist profiles written for The New Yorker over six decades. The work provides an authoritative account of contemporary art history through intimate portraits of figures like Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst.

Genres

Biography & MemoirHistoryCreativity & Design

Topics

Art CriticismArt HistoryArtistic ProcessContemporary ArtInterviewNew YorkerProfiles

Book Details

Published

2019

Pages

1640

Language

en

ISBN

9780714879369

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