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- Condition
- ISBN
- 0312425856
- EAN
- 9780312425852
- Date of Publication
- 2005-11-29
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
- Artist
- Tompkins, Calvin
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312425856
ISBN-13
9780312425852
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47970259
Product Key Features
Book Title
Off the Wall : a Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Reviews
"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, As chronicler of the avant-garde for The New Yorker, Calvin Tomkins has specialized in rendering the esoteric doings of artists comprehensible., "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", I commend Calvin Tomkins, as Bernard Berenson did Vasari, for 'being a singularly warm, generous, and appreciative critic.', "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
Table Of Content
Preface to the New Edition Venice, 1964 Port Arthur Mostly Messes Black Mountain Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, and So On White Numbers A Place Where Art Goes On John Cage Feticci Personali Enfant Terrible Dancers Jasper Johns Why Not Sneeze? Moving Out Towards Theater Into the Sixties Hot and Cold Heroes The Construction of Boston Recognition The Sistine on Broadway Incidents of Travel in Europe and Asia Nine Evenings The Not So Great Society "There is no solution because there is no problem"--Marcel DuChamp End of an Era Captiva Everything in Sight (Rauschenberg Revisited, 2004-2005) Appendix Notes Index
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. 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. 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. Rauschenberg's vitally important and productive career spans this revolution, reaching beyond it to the present day. Featuring the artists and the art world surrounding Rauschenberg--from Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning to Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, together with dealers Betty Parsons, and Leo Castelli, and the patron Peggy Guggenheim--Tomkins's stylish and witty portrait of one of America's most original and inspiring artists is fascinating, enlightening, and very entertaining., Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. 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. 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. Rauschenberg's vitally important and productive career spans this revolution, reaching beyond it to the present day. Featuring the artists and the art world surrounding Rauschenberg--from Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning to Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, together with dealers Betty Parsons, and Leo Castelli, and the patron Peggy Guggenheim--Tomkins's stylish and witty portrait of one of America's most original and inspiring artists is fascinating, enlightening, and very entertaining.
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