Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

(Sue Taylor Art in America)A forthcoming book presents previously unpublished interviews with Marcel Duchamp from 1964 by longtime New Yorker contributor Calvin Tompkins. Adding to the veritable industry of publications devoted to the artist.' (Brian Boucher Art in America) . These previously unreleased interviews, conducted in Duchamp's New York home in 1964, reveal the master at his playful, ever-provocative ease

Tomkins is the author of 12 books, including The Bride and the Bachelors (1965), Living Well Is the Best Revenge (1971), Lives of the Artists (2008) and Duchamp: A Biography (1996).. He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960. The Afternoon Interviews, which includes an introductory interview with Tomkins reflecting on Duchamp as an artist, guide and friend, reintroduces the reader to key ideas of his artistic world and renews Duchamp as a vital model for a new generation of artists.Calvin Tomkins was born in 1925 in Orange, New Jersey. Those interviews have never been edited and made public, until now. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and surprising as life itself. In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a

Kevin Killian said Interior Contradictions. Marcel Duchamp was an enigma to many, and the new collection of his interviews (conducted in the early 60s by a magazine writer attempting a profile on a mercurial figure) will fascinate those already hooked on the guy, while newcomers will find here an easy, painless and exceedingly swift introduction into the mind and humor of one of the world's leading artistic figures. At . Calvin Tomkins at his best & a wonderful insight into Duchamp Ann C. Greenwood A fabulous readCalvin Tomkins at his best & a wonderful insight into Duchamp, much of it in his own words. I started reading it right after I opened the package & finished it the next morning.In all of the art history I have studied, Duchamp has generally been presented as mysterious &/or inexplicable. His clear mind & sense of purpose are very evident in this book, as well as. "Positive feedback for an excellent book" according to jabou. Good to read this personal book by an excellent art critic and historian. Personal accounts mean alot in understandingcomplex people.