Lives of the Artists: Portraits of Ten Artists Whose Work and Lifestyles Embody the Future of Contemporary Art

• Art
• Lives of the Artists
• Calvin Tomkins

“Brilliantly illuminating . . . This latter-day Vasari puts his dry wit and keen eye to work in fashioning enduring portraits of ten contemporary-art stars, tracing the fruits of creative genius back to their strange roots.”–VogueFor more than four decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In Lives of the Artists ten major artists are captured in Tomkins’s cool and ironic

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This Item is an original three page Magazine article, taken from a vintage magazine of the year indicated. The article is complete and opens the door to the time during which it was written and the social beliefs of that era. The scan of this item was taken through plastic film, however it is an accurate representation of the item. The nominal size is 10.5 inches by 14 inches…. More >>

SPEAKING OF PICTURES … This Is A Day In A Babe’s Life. Babe is the creation of Herbert F. Poese, New York illustrator whose drawings have enlivened the pages of many a magazine and of Thorne Smith’s “Topper” books. Mr. Roese knows girls like Babe, thinks they play a useful part in modern life and believes most people misunderstand them. Babe is good or bad depanding on what you mean by good and bad. Married young and now divorced, she has a little alimony, sometimes works as receptionist or hat-check girl. But her main job is to be a pretty, sympathetic companion to men, usually elderly, who generally give her some worthy token of their appreciation. Babe isn’t mercenary and has no firm ideas about the limits of a companion’s duties. ….. 1941 LIFE Magazine Article, A5362A. 19410421

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