Calvin Tomkins & Paul Chan on Duchamp
New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins and artist Paul Chan discuss Tomkins' new book, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews, published by Chan's press, Badlands Unlimited. The Afternoon Interviews feature Tomkins' previously unpublished 1964 interviews with Marcel Duchamp. Tomkins talks about Duchamp as an artist, guide, and friend, and reflects on the key ideas of his artistic world and how they continue to inspire and provoke (in equal measure) artists working today. Recorded 12 March, 2013 at the store 192 Books.
Calvin Tomkins was born in 1925 in Orange, New Jersey. He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960. His many profiles of artists include John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, and Jasper Johns. 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).
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Channel 192 is curated by Jack Macrae, editor of the Henry Holt imprint Jack Macrae Books, who says that most bookstores, especially the leviathan Borders and Barnes and Noble, are not interested in books. So he and his wife, gallerist Paula Cooper, opened their own, 192 Books on 10th Avenue in Manhattan. Like bookstores of old, 192 houses a collection that is a very personal reflection of its owners. Programs appearing below were recorded during public readings at 192 Books or Paula Cooper Gallery.
