Calvin Tomkins: The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde (1965/1976)
29 July 2014, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art history, dance, machine, music, painting
A classic work of art criticism. The chapters on Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham by an author also known for his work for Radio Free Europe, Newsweek, and The New Yorker.
First published by Viking Press, 1965
Viking Compass Edition with a new Introduction and expanded text published 1968
This edition by Penguin, 1976
ISBN 0140043136
306 pages
PDF (36 MB, no OCR)
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